ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

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

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tala, jati, khyal, thaat, tabla, timbal.

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