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nuqta

  • /ˈnʊktə/

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

noun 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.

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noun diacritic

日本語ヌクター nukutā
हिन्दीनुक़्ता nuqtā, ़
Русскийну́кта núkta
العربيةنُقْطَة nuqṭa

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@misc{nuqta_2026,
  title = {nuqta},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nuqta},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}