matra

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English - English
The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in the Devanagari script
An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts
A term in Indian poetics and linguistics for the measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora
A term in Indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala
matra

    Turkish pronunciation

    mätrı

    Pronunciation

    /ˈmatrə/ /ˈmætrə/

    Etymology

    () Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”)
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