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nuqta

/ˈnʊktə/

nuqta noun: 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.

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.

nuqta meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Punjabi

nuqta in Hindi

diacritic
नुक़्ता nuqtā, ़

nuqta in Urdu

diacritic
نقطہ nuqtah

nuqta in Bengali

diacritic
নুক্তা nukta, নুক়্তা nuqta, ়

nuqta in Punjabi

diacritic
ਨੁਕ਼ਤਾ nuqtā
More languagesFewer languages
nuqta in Assamese
ফুট phut, নক্তা nokta, ়়
nuqta in Arabic
نُقْطَة nuqṭa
nuqta in Persian
نقطه noqte

Forms of nuqta

pluralnuqtas

Origin of nuqta

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

Questions about nuqta

What does nuqta mean?
Nuqta means 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.
What is nuqta in Hindi?
Nuqta in Hindi is नुक़्ता (nuqtā), ़. See Nuqta meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is nuqta?
Nuqta is a noun.
How do you pronounce nuqta?
Nuqta is pronounced /ˈnʊktə/.
What is the plural of nuqta?
The plural of nuqta is nuqtas.

Words near nuqta in the dictionary

  1. nuptual
  2. nuptuality
  3. nuptuals
  4. nupur
  5. nupurs
  6. nuqta
  7. nuqtas
  8. nuque
  9. nuques
  10. nur
  11. Nur-Sultan

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