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Meaning of matra | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  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.

Equivalents

Français matra
हिन्दी मात मात्रा
Bahasa Indonesia matra
Русский ма́тра

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

matraca matraite Matralia Matran matranee Matranga

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