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Matra

noun

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

Etymology

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

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