Matra
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Matra is a noun meaning (music) In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
Meaning
(music) In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
More Meanings
- In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
- The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
- An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.
Word Forms
- matras
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tala, jati, khyal, thaat, tabla, timbal.
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