nuqta

English

Etymology

From Hindustani نقطہ / नुक़्ता (nuqtā), from Classical Persian (nuqta), from Arabic نُقْطَة (nuqṭa).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnʊktə/

Noun

nuqta (plural nuqtas)

A diacritic used in the Devanagari, Gurmukhi, and other Indian scripts for sounds not present in the original scripts, including sounds borrowed from Arabic, Persian, and English.

Translations

diacritic

Arabic: نُقْطَة (ar) f (nuqṭa)
Assamese: ফুট (phut), নক্তা (nokta), (symbol) ়়
Azerbaijani: nöqtə (az)
Bashkir: нөктә (nöktə)
Hindi: नुक़्ता (hi) m (nuqtā), (symbol) ़
Persian: نقطه (fa) (noqte)
Punjabi: ਨੁਕ਼ਤਾ m (nuqtā)
Russian: ну́кта (ru) f (núkta)
Tajik: нуқта (nuqta)
Turkish: nokta (tr)
Urdu: نقطہ m (nuqtah)
Uzbek: nuqta (uz)

See also

़

Anagrams

quant

Uzbek

Other scripts
Yangi Imlo	نقطہ
Cyrillic	нуқта‍
Latin	nuqta‍
Perso-Arabic (Afghanistan)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْطَة (nuqṭa).

Noun

nuqta (plural nuqtalar)

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