different between mactra vs matra

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

mactra (plural mactras)

1. Any marine bivalve shell of the numerous known species of genus Mactra and allied genera, some of which are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe.

Synonyms

• surf clam

Anagrams

• amtrac, ram-cat, tarmac

Latin

Etymology

Late Latin gloss of Ancient Greek ?????? (máktra, “kneading trough”).

Noun

mactra f (genitive mactrae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) A kneading trough

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• “mactra” in University of Chicago's Logeion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit ?????? (m?tr?, “measure, small quantity”)

Noun

matra (plural matras)

1. (music) 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.

Translations

See also

• laya
• tala

Anagrams

• MARTA, Matar, Tamar, Tamra, trama

Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (m?tr?, “measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mat?ra]
• Hyphenation: mat?ra

Noun

matra (first-person possessive matraku, second-person possessive matramu, third-person possessive matranya)

1. dimension, measure of spatial extent.

   Synonym: dimensi

2. matra,
   1. (music) a measure of cadence pressure.
   2. (poetic) a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “matra” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Maore Comorian

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *màkútà, with an internal deletion of -fu-.

Noun

matra 6

1. oil

References

• “matra” in Outils & Ressources pour l'Exploitation de la Langue Comorienne, 2008.