different between matra vs macra

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.

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????? (makrá), neuter plural form of ?????? (makrós, “long”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?k?r?, IPA^(key): /?mæk??/

Noun

macra

1. plural of macron
   • 1986: Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell, Reading Latin: Grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Introduction — General notes (note 1), page 2 (22^nd printing (2007); Cambridge University Press; ?ISBN

     All vowels are pronounced short unless marked with a ¯ (macron) over them. So observe different vowel length of ‘i’ in, e.g., f?lia, etc. It may be helpful, but is not essential, to mark macra in your exercises.

Anagrams

• CAMRA, cam'ra

Irish

Alternative forms

• macradh (obsolete)
• macraidh f

Etymology

From Old Irish maccrad; synchronically analyzable as mac +? -ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?ak???/

Noun

macra m (genitive singular macra, nominative plural macraí)

1. (collective), boys, youths, children
2. (countable) band of youths

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 mac(c)rad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “macrai?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 455.
• “macra?” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "macra" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Adjective

macra

1. nominative feminine singular of macer
2. nominative neuter plural of macer
3. accusative neuter plural of macer
4. vocative feminine singular of macer
5. vocative neuter plural of macer

Adjective

macr?

1. ablative feminine singular of macer