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matra

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

noun matras

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

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noun horizontal line in many Indic scripts

हिन्दी	मात्रा mātrā, शिरोरेखा śirorekhā
Русский	ма́тра mátra

noun vowel symbol

हिन्दी	मात्रा mātrā
Русский	ма́тра mátra

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@misc{matra_2026,
  title = {matra},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/matra},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}