nuqta

/ˈnʊktə/

Etymology

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

nuqta 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. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.

nuqta is pronounced /ˈnʊktə/.

noun

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.