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