matra

English

noun
Definitions
  • (music) In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
  • In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
  • The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
  • An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (measure, small quantity, amount, degree).

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Sanskrit

मात्रा

Gloss

measure, small quantity, amount, degree

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