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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
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Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
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noun
The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
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noun
An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.
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History
Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”).
Across languages
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