gatra

== English == === Noun === gatra (plural gatras) (music) A unit of melody in Javanese gamelan music, analogous to a measure. === Anagrams === atgar == Indonesian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦠꦿ (gatra, “form; shape; clause”), from Old Javanese gātra (“appearance, shape, form, figure, lines; face; first lines, first colouring”, literally “body”), from Sanskrit गात्र (gātra, “body”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈɡatra/ [ˈɡat̪̚.ra] Rhymes: -atra Syllabification: gat‧ra === Noun === gatra (plural gatra-gatra) (uncommon) manifestation (the embodiment of an intangible, or variable thing) Synonyms: manifestasi, perwujudan aspect Synonym: aspek (linguistics) a grammatical quality of a verb which determines the relationship of the speaker to the internal temporal flow of the event which the verb describes, or whether the speaker views the event from outside as a whole, or from within as it is unfolding the way something appears when viewed from a certain direction or perspective (grammar) syntactic unit (music) sentences or lines in traditional songs (tembang) the shape of the keris detail that represents or is a style of a particular region or era Synonym: wanda (music) the rhythm in karawitan which contains four beats ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “gatra”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016