Etymology

candrabindu

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Today it means: A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka") Full definition →

Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु
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  1. Sanskrit · borrowed fromचन्द्रबिन्दु
  2. English todaycandrabindu

Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, literally “moon dot”).

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