nuqta

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnʊktə/

Noun

nuqta (plural nuqtas)

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 (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: ਨੁਕਤਾ m (nuktā)
• 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
Cyrillic	нуқта (nuqta)‍
Latin	nuqta‍
Perso-Arabic	نقطہ

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْطَة (nuqṭa).

Noun

nuqta (plural nuqtalar)

1. point