candrabindu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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")

Pronunciation

/t͡ʃʌndɹəbɪnduː/ /t͡ʃɔndɹəbɪnduː/

Word forms

candrabindu candrabindus chandrabindu chandravindu candravindu chandrobindu chondrobindu

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, literally “moon dot”).

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