different between metra vs matra

English

Etymology 1

Noun

metra (plural metrae)

1. (medicine) The uterus.

Etymology 2

Ancient Greek [Term?] (“measure”)

Noun

metra (plural metras)

1. (historical) A pocket instrument combining a thermometer, level, plummet, and lens.

Anagrams

• 'mater, METAR, Marte, armet, mater, ramet, tamer, terma, trema, tréma

Faroese

Noun

metra

1. indefinite genitive plural of metur

   skipið liggur á túsund metra dýpi - the ship lies at 1000 metres depth

Latin

Noun

metra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of metrum

References

• metra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

metra n

1. indefinite plural of metrum
2. definite plural of metrum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

metra n

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of metrum
2. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of metrum

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me?tra

Noun

metra f (plural metras)

1. (Venezuela) marble (toy)

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.