matra

Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”).

matra (plural matras)

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

• laya
• tala

• MARTA, Marta, Matar, Tamar, Tamra, trama

From Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure”). Doublet of meter.

• Displaced Dutch dimensie (“dimension”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmat̚ra]
• Hyphenation: mat‧ra

matra (plural matra-matra)

1. dimension, measure of spatial extent

   Synonym: dimensi

2. matra,
   1. (music) a measure of cadence pressure
   2. (poetic) a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora

• “matra” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

matra

1. romanization of ꦩꦠꦿ

From Proto-Bantu *màkútà, with an internal deletion of -fu-.

matra class 6

1. oil

• “matra” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.