different between matha vs matra

English

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ?? (ma?ha).

Alternative forms

• math
• mutt

Noun

matha (plural mathas)

1. (Hinduism, Jainism) A monastic or similar religious establishment in Hinduism and Jainism, usually more formal and hierarchical than an ashram.

Etymology 2

From Bengali ???? (m?th?)

Noun

matha (plural mathas)

1. (slang, New York City) head

Gamilaraay

Noun

matha

1. A female marriage class or skin group. A matha can marry only a gambu; her sons will be gabi, and her daughters gabutha.

References

• Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)

Karao

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

Noun

matha

1. (anatomy) eye

Phuthi

Etymology

Borrowed from Sotho matha.

Verb

-matha

1. to run

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Sotho

Verb

matha

1. to run

Descendants

• ? Phuthi: -matha

Thao

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

Noun

matha

1. eye (organ)

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.