Home › Words › D › dandadanda/ˈdɑndə/danda means A punctuation character (।) used in the Devanāgarī script to mark the end of a sentence.danda is pronounced /ˈdɑndə/.EtymologyFrom Sanskrit दण्ड (daṇḍá, “stick”).nounA punctuation character (।) used in the Devanāgarī script to mark the end of a sentence.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.candrabindu 60% match — 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") vs danda →punctus 57% match — The basic dot (‧) used to end a sentence in medieval punctuation (ancestral to the full stop/period). vs danda →dots 56% match — A punctuation mark consisting of three dots, indicating an omission of some text or a sentence which wasn't fully finished, an ellipsis. vs danda →nuqta 55% match — 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. vs danda →damma 54% match — In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/. vs danda →avagraha 53% match — A symbol (ऽ) used in the Devanagari script and other Indian scripts, to mark vocalic gemination or the elision of the inherent vowel a in the process of sandhi in Sanskrit. vs danda →middot 53% match — Synonym of interpunct ⟨·⟩. vs danda →darga 52% match — A Hebrew cantillation mark found in the Torah, the Haftarah, etc., resembling a backwards Z. vs danda →