चंद्रबिंदु

Hindi

चंद्रबिंदु

Alternative forms

• चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu)

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu). By surface analysis, चंद्र (candra, “moon”) +‎ बिंदु (bindu, “dot”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃən.d̪ɾə.bɪn.d̪uː/, [t͡ʃɐ̃n̪.d̪ɾɐ.bɪ̃n̪.d̪uː]

Noun

चंद्रबिंदु • (candrabindu) m (Urdu spelling چندربند)

1. (grammar, typography, phonetics) candrabindu; the diacritic mark in Devanagari "ँ" used to indicate the nasalization of a vowel

Declension

Declension of चंद्रबिंदु (masc u-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	चंद्रबिंदु candrabindu	चंद्रबिंदु candrabindu
oblique	चंद्रबिंदु candrabindu	चंद्रबिंदुओं candrabinduõ
vocative	चंद्रबिंदु candrabindu	चंद्रबिंदुओ candrabinduo

See also

• ँ (̃)
• अनुस्वार (anusvār)

References

• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “चंद्रबिंदु”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 1431
• Caturvedi, Mahendra; Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970), “चंद्र”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “चंद्र”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press