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

• matera

Borrowed from Javanese ꦩꦠꦿ (matra, “measure”), from Old Javanese mātra (“measure”), 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

• → Malay: matra

• “matra”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), 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

Borrowed from Indonesian matra, from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure”). Doublet of meter.

• Displaced Dutch dimensie “dimension” in former Dutch colonies (Riouw and dependencies etc) as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944. Later absorbed into Malaysian dictionaries in 1970s

matra (plural matra-matra or matra²)

1. dimension, measure of spatial extent

   Synonym: dimensi

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

• "matra" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

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.

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matra

1. (anatomy) eye

• Josiane Cauquelin (2015), Nanwang Puyuma-English Dictionary (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series 56), Taipei: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, →ISBN, page 264