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matras

matras is the plural of matra.

Meaning of matra

Noun

matra (plural matras)

  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.

Questions about matras

What is matras the plural of?
Matras is the plural of matra.

Words near matras in the dictionary

  1. Matran
  2. matranee
  3. matranees
  4. Matranga
  5. Matrangas
  6. matras
  7. matrass
  8. matrasses
  9. Matraville
  10. Matrena
  11. matrep

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