matraEtymologyBorrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”).matra means in Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 84 out of 100.nounIn Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.