nuqta

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 script for sounds not present in the original script, 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 (nöktä) Hindi: नुक़्ता m (nuqtā), (symbol) ़ (़) Persian: نقطه‎ (fa) (nuqte)

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
Roman	nuqta‍
Perso-Arabic	‍‍

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْطَة‎ (nuqṭa).

Noun

nuqta (plural nuqtalar)

1. point