gatra
English
Noun
gatra (plural gatras)
Anagrams
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
- menggatra
- gatra pangkal
- gatra sebutan
Further reading
- “gatra” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.