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nuqta

Today it 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. Full definition →

Hindustani ← Classical Persian نُقْطَه ← Arabic نُقْطَة

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Arabic · derived fromنُقْطَة
Classical Persian · derived fromنُقْطَه
Hindustani · borrowed from
English todaynuqta

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.