نقطه

نقطه

See also: نقطة‎ and نقطہ‎

Azerbaijani

Noun

نقطه

1. Arabic spelling of nöqtə

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْطَة‎ (nuqṭa, “dot, point”).

Noun

نقطه • (nokta) (plural نقته‌ط‎ (nukat) or نقطه‌لر‎ (noktalar))

1. dot, point, a small, round spot or speck
2. dot, a punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence
3. point, a specific location or place
4. (figuratively) small patch of verdure in a desert

Derived terms

• نقطه‌سز‎ (noktasız, “dotless”)
• نقطه‌لامق‎ (noktalamak, “to dot”)
• نقطه‌لو‎ (noktalı, “dotted”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: nokta

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “nokta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3560
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “نقطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1284
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Punctum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1408
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “نقطه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5238
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “nokta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “نقطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2100

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Pashto

Noun

نقطه • (noqtá) f

1. point
2. full stop

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic نُقْطَة‎ (nuqṭa).

Pronunciation

(phonemic)

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /nuqta/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /nʊqta/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /noɢte/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /nuqta/

(phonetic)

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [noxˈt̪ʰe]

Noun

Dari	نُقطَه
Iranian Persian	نُقطِه
Tajik	нуқта (nuqta)

نُقطِه • (noqte) (plural نِقاط‎ (neqât, noqât) or نُقَط‎ (noqat) or نقطه‌ها‎ (noqte-hâ))

1. point, dot, spot
   • 1976, خسرو شاهانی‎, “عینک طبی”, in کور لعنتی:

     ‏با چشم چپم که نگاه کردم روی سیم فقط یک نقته سیاه دیدم.‎‎

     bâ češm-e čap-am ke negâh kardam ru-ye sim faqat yek noqte-ye siyâh didam.

     When I looked with my left eye, I only saw a black dot on the wire.

2. spot, place, location
   • 1976, خسرو شاهانی‎, “توبه”, in کور لعنتی:

     ‏و یک هفته بعد هرکدام در یک نقطه شهر مشغول جیب بری شدند.‎‎

     va yek hafte-ye ba'd har-kodâm dar yek noqte-ye šahr mašğul-e jib-bari šodand.

     And one week later, each of them began pickpocketing at a spot in the city.

3. period, full stop

Derived terms

• نقطی‎ (noqti)

Descendants

• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नुक़्ता (nuqtā)

  Urdu: نقطہ‎

• → Punjabii:

  Gurmukhi: ਨੁਕਤਾ (nuktā)

  Shahmukhi: نقطہ‎ (nuqta)