nuqta

English

Etymology

From Hindi नुक़्ता (nuqtā) / Urdu نقطہ (nuqta), from Persian نقطه (noqte), from Arabic نُقْطَة (nuqṭa).

Noun

nuqta (plural nuqta)

1. 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 f (nuqṭa)
• Assamese: ফুট (phut), নক্তা (nokta), (symbol) ়়
• Azerbaijani: nöqtə (az)
• Bashkir: нөктә (nöktə)
• Hindi: नुक़्ता m (nuqtā), (symbol) ़
• Persian: نقطه (fa) (nuqte)
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• Russian: ну́кта (ru) f (núkta)
• Tajik: нуқта (nuqta)
• Turkish: nokta (tr)
• Urdu: نقطہ m (nuqtā)
• Uzbek: nuqta (uz)

See also

• ़

Anagrams

• quant

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Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic	нуқта‍
Latin	nuqta‍
Perso-Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْطَة (nuqṭa).

Noun

nuqta (plural nuqtalar)

1. point