matra

  1. Noun.  (music) A term in Indian music referring to the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
  2. Noun.  A term in Indian poetics and linguistics for the measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
  3. Noun.  The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in the Devanagari script.
  4. Noun.  An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.

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