نقطه

See also: نقطة and نقطہ

Azerbaijani

Noun

نقطه

1. Arabic spelling of nöqtə

Malay

Noun

نقطه (informal 1st possessive نقطهکو, 2nd possessive نقطهمو, 3rd possessive نقطهڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of noktah‎

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْطَة (nuqṭa, “dot, point”).

Noun

نقطه • (nokta) (plural نقته‌ط (nukat) or نقطه‌لر (noktalar))

1. dot, point, a small, round spot or speck
2. dot, a punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence
3. point, a specific location or place
4. (figuratively) small patch of verdure in a desert

Derived terms

• نقطه‌سز (noktasız, “dotless”)
• نقطه‌لامق (noktalamak, “to dot”)
• نقطه‌لو (noktalı, “dotted”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: nokta
• → Armenian: նօխտա (nōxta), նոխթա (noxtʻa)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “nokta”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3560
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “nokta”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1009
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نقطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1284
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Punctum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1408
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “نقطه”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 5238
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nokta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نقطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2098

Pashto

Noun

نقطه • (noqtá) f

1. point
2. full stop

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْطَة (nuqṭa).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [nuq.ˈta]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.t̪ʰǽ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [nʊq.t̪ʰǽ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [nʊx.t̪ʰǽ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [nuq.t̪ʰǽ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [nox.t̪ʰé]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [nuq.t̪ʰǽ]

Readings
Classical reading?	nuqta
Dari reading?	nuqta
Iranian reading?	noğte
Tajik reading?	nuqta

Noun

Dari	نُقطَه
Iranian Persian	نُقطِه
Tajik	нуқта

نُقطِه • (noqte) (plural نِقاط (neqât, noqât) or نُقَط (noqat) or نقطه‌ها (noqte-hâ))

1. point, dot, spot
   • 1976, خسرو شاهانی, “عینک طبی”, in کور لعنتی:

     با چشم چپم که نگاه کردم روی سیم فقط یک نقته سیاه دیدم.

     bâ češm-e čap-am ke negâh kardam ru-ye sim faqat yek noqte-ye siyâh didam.

     When I looked with my left eye, I only saw a black dot on the wire.

2. spot, place, location
   • 1976, خسرو شاهانی, “توبه”, in کور لعنتی:

     و یک هفته بعد هرکدام در یک نقطه شهر مشغول جیب بری شدند.

     va yek hafte-ye ba'd har-kodâm dar yek noqte-ye šahr mašğul-e jib-bari šodand.

     And one week later, each of them began pickpocketing at a spot in the city.

3. period, full stop

Derived terms

• نقطی (noqti)

Descendants

• Dari: نُقْطَه (nuqta)
• Iranian Persian: نُقْطِه (noğte)
• Tajik: нуқта (nuqta)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: नुक़्ता (nuqtā)

  Urdu: نُقْطَہ (nuqta)

• → Punjabii:

  Gurmukhi script: ਨੁਕਤਾ (nuktā)

  Shahmukhi script: نقطہ (nuqta)