different between devanagari vs candrabindu

Italian

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???????? (devan?gar?), compound of ??? (deva, “deity, divine”) + ??? (nagara, “town, city”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.va?na.?a.ri/
• Hyphenation: de?va?nà?ga?ri

Adjective

devanagari (invariable)

1. Devanagari

Noun

devanagari m or f (uncountable)

1. Devanagari (abugida alphabet of India and Nepal)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /debana??a?i/, [d?e.??a.na???a.?i]

Adjective

devanagari (invariable)

1. Devanagari

Noun

devanagari m (uncountable)

1. Devanagari

English

Alternative forms

• chandrabindu, chandravindu, candravindu, chôndrobindu

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???????????? (candrabindu, literally “moon dot”)

Noun

candrabindu (plural candrabindus)

1. A diacritic used in indic scripts like Devanagari (?), Bengali (?), Gurmukhi ( ?), Gujarati (?), Oriya (?), 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"):

   Devanagari: ??

   Bengali: ??

   Gurmukhi: ??

   Gujarati: ??

   Oriya: ??

   Telugu: ??

Translations

See also

• anusvara
• halant
• killer
• sukun
• visarga
• vowel killer