m. a Brāhman of the lowest order i.e. only by birth, [Hcat.]
n. an element, elementary matter, [BhP.]
(ifc.) measure, quantity, sum, size, duration, measure of any kind (whether of height, depth, breadth, length, distance, time or number, e.g. aṅgula-mātram, a finger's breadth, [Pañcat.]; artha-mātram, a certain sum of money, [ib.]; krośa-mātre, at the distance of a Kos, [Hit.] ; māsa-mātre, in a month, [Lāṭy.]; śata-mātram, a hundred in number, [Kathās.])
the full or simple measure of anything, the whole or totality, the one thing and no more, often = nothing but, entirely, only (e.g. rāja-mātram, the whole class of kings, [ŚāṅkhŚr.]; bhaya-m°, all that may be called danger, any danger, [VarBṛS.]; rati-m°, nothing but sensuality, [Mn.]; śabda-mātreṇa, only by a sound, [Śak.])
mf(A and I)n. (ifc.) having the measure of, i.e. as large or high or long or broad or deep or far or much or many (cf. aṅguṣṭha-, tāla-, bāhu-, yava-, tāvan-, etāvan-m°)
possessing (only) as much as or no more than (cf. prāṇa-yātrika-m°)
amounting (only) to (pleonastically after numerals; cf. tri-m°)
being nothing but, simply or merely (cf. padāti-, manuṣya-m°; after a pp. = scarcely, as soon as, merely, just, e.g. jāta-m°, scarcely or just born, [Mn.]; kṛṣṭa-m°, merely ploughed, [KātyŚr.]; bhukta-mātre, immediately after eating, [Mn.])
, °traka &c. See p. 804, cols. 2, 3.