# نقطه
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

نقطه
* Arabic spelling of nöqtə

## Malay
### Noun

نقطه (informal 1st possessive نقطهکو, 2nd possessive نقطهمو, 3rd possessive نقطهڽ)
* Jawi spelling of noktah‎

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

نقطه • (nokta) (plural نقته‌ط (nukat) or نقطه‌لر (noktalar))
* dot, point, a small, round spot or speck
* dot, a punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence
* point, a specific location or place
* (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 (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1009
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “نقطه”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 5238
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nokta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نقطه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2098

## Pashto
### Noun

نقطه • (noqtá) f
* point
* full stop

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نُقْطَة (nuqṭa).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [nuq.ˈta]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [nʊq.t̪ʰǽ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [nʊq.t̪ʰǽ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [nʊx.t̪ʰǽ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [nuq.t̪ʰǽ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [nox.t̪ʰé]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [nuq.t̪ʰǽ]

### Noun

| Dari | نُقطَه |
| Iranian Persian | نُقطِه |
| Tajik | нуқта |
نُقطِه • (noqte) (plural نِقاط (neqât, noqât) or نُقَط (noqat) or نقطه‌ها (noqte-hâ))
* 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.
* 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.
* 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)
*** → English: nuqta, nukta
* → Punjabi:
** → Gurmukhi script: ਨੁਕ਼ਤਾ (nuqtā)
** → Shahmukhi script: نُقْطَہ (nuqt̤ah)