different between yatra vs matra

English

Alternative forms

• Yatra
• yaatra

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?????? (y?tr?).

Noun

yatra (plural yatras)

1. A Hindu pilgrimage.

   • Thousands of activists and vehicles therefore diffused quietly out of Delhi in the following days to reassemble in a yatra that now swelled to 40–50,000 people.

   • By calling this little stroll a yatra I am making a mild joke to myself, because in India a yatra can be a grueling expedition such as a hike to the top of Mount Kailas in the Himalayas.

   • At the inauguration of this temple a yatra for her was performed attracting again a big part of Chatamput's mostly female inhabitants, who all claimed that Kondamakalamma now is the "real" goddess of the village.

   • I thus wonder whether the yatra was not primarily "efficient" for the upper middle classes who - physically removed from direct participation - enjoyed the BJP going on a yatra, presenting them with ready-made edutainment about nationality, easy to digest, without much physical and mental effort.

Anagrams

• atray, tayra, yarta

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ???
• Roman: arta, arto (nonstandard), yotro (nonstandard)

Etymology

Perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (artha). Compare Balinese ??? (arta).

Noun

yatra (ngoko dhuwit, krama yatra)

1. Krama of dhuwit.

References

• "yatra" in Tim Balai Bahasa Yogyakarta, Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa). Kanisius, Yogyakarta

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.