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matra.

In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. 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.

Where this word comes from

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

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.