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- noun A
diacritic used in theDevanagari (ँ ),Bengali (ঁ ),Gurmukhi ( ਁ),Gujarati (ઁ ),Oriya (ଁ ), andTelugu (ఁ ) 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"):
Etymologies
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From Sanskrit चन्द्रबिन्दु (candrabindu, "moon dot")
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