matra

The English word “matra” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

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.

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

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