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  • noun A diacritic used in the Devanagari script to describe modern sounds borrowed from languages not native to Devanagari, mainly Urdu (Arabic, Farsi) and English.

Etymologies

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From नुक़्ता / نقطہ (nuqta), from Arabic نقطة (nuqṭa).

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