ञ
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Translingual
Pronunciation
Letter
ञ (ña)
- Devanagari letter.
See also
Ligatures:
Dhivehi
Pronunciation
Letter
ञ • (ñə)
- The twentieth consonant in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari
Hindi
Pronunciation
Letter
ञ • (ña)
See also
- (Devanagari script letters) अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अः, अँ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह, त्र, ज्ञ, क्ष, क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, झ़, ड़, ढ़, फ़ (Category: Hindi letters)
Marathi
Pronunciation
Letter
ञ • (ña)
Nepali
Pronunciation
Letter
ञ • (ña)
See also
- (Devanagari script letters) अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ऌ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अः, अँ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह, क्ष, त्र, ज्ञ (Category: Nepali letters)
References
- “ञ”, in नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोश (nepālī br̥hat śabdakoś), Kathmandu: Nepal Academy, 2018
Newar
Alternative forms
- (Dolakhae) ङ (ṅa)
Etymology
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja.
Noun
- (Kathmandu) fish
Sanskrit
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- ঞ (Assamese script)
- ᬜ (Balinese script)
- ঞ (Bengali script)
- 𑰗 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀜 (Brahmi script)
- ဉ (Burmese script)
- ઞ (Gujarati script)
- ਞ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌞 (Grantha script)
- ꦚ (Javanese script)
- 𑂖 (Kaithi script)
- ಞ (Kannada script)
- ញ (Khmer script)
- ຎ (Lao script)
- ഞ (Malayalam script)
- ᠨᡳᠶᠠ (Manchu script)
- 𑘗 (Modi script)
- ᡛᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦷 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐘 (Newa script)
- ଞ (Odia script)
- ꢛ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆚 (Sharada script)
- 𑖗 (Siddham script)
- ඤ (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩥 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚓 (Takri script)
- ஞ (Tamil script)
- ఞ (Telugu script)
- ญ (Thai script)
- ཉ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒘 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨓 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
ञ • (ña) stem, ?
- Singer
- Gurgling sound
- Bull
- N. of Śukra
- Perversity
- Number 'ten'
References
- Apte, Macdonell (2022) “ञः”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]