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English
Pronunciation
Noun
full stop (plural full stops)
- (Australia, British, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa) The punctuation mark "." (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- (figurative) A decisive end to something.
2022 October 22, Wendy Ide, quoting Steven Spielberg, “‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs”, in The Guardian:[S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”
Synonyms
- (indicating end of sentence) See period
- (marking an abbreviation) dot, point, -x
Derived terms
Translations
The punctuation mark “.”
- Albanian: pikë (sq) f
- Arabic: نُقْطَة (ar) f (nuqṭa), عَلَامَة فَصْلِيَّة f (ʕalāma faṣliyya)
- Armenian: (indicating end of sentence) վերջակետ (hy) (verǰaket), (marking an abbreviation) կետ (hy) (ket)
- Assamese: দাৰি (dari), ।(Assamese symbol)
- Azerbaijani: nöqtə (az)
- Bashkir: нөктә (nöktə)
- Belarusian: кро́пка f (krópka)
- Bengali: দাঁড়ি (bn) (dãṛi), বিন্দু (bn) (bindu), । (Bengali symbol)
- Bulgarian: то́чка (bg) f (tóčka)
- Burmese: (symbol) ။ (my), ၊ (my)
- Carpathian Rusyn: то́чка f (tóčka)
- Catalan: punt (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 句號／句号 (zh) (jùhào), 句點／句点 (zh) (jùdiǎn) (European dot: “.”), 。 (zh) (Chinese symbol)
- Chuvash: пӑнчӑ (pănč̬ă)
- Czech: tečka (cs) f
- Danish: punktum (da) n
- Dutch: punt (nl) m
- Esperanto: punkto
- Estonian: punkt (et)
- Finnish: piste (fi)
- French: point (fr) m
- Georgian: წერტილი (ka) (c̣erṭili)
- German: Punkt (de) m
- Greek: τελεία (el) f (teleía)
- Hebrew: נקודה \ נְקֻדָּה (he) f (n'kudá)
- Hindi: दंड (hi) m (daṇḍ), । (Hindi symbol), पूर्ण विराम (pūrṇ virām), बिंदु (hi) m (bindu)
- Hungarian: pont (hu)
- Icelandic: punktur (is) m
- Indonesian: titik (id)
- Irish: lánstad m, ponc m
- Italian: punto (it) m
- Japanese: 句点 (ja) (くてん, kuten), 終止符 (ja) (しゅうしふ, shūshifu), 。 (ja) (Japanese symbol), ピリオド (ja) (piriodo)
- Kalmyk: цег (tseg)
- Kazakh: нүкте (nükte)
- Korean: 마침표 (ko) (machimpyo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: niqte (ku), xal (ku)
- Kyrgyz: чекит (ky) (cekit), точка (ky) (tocka)
- Lakota: wóihaŋke
- Lao: ຈຸດ (chut)
- Latvian: punkts (lv) m
- Lithuanian: taškas (lt) m
- Lü: ᦺᦙᧉᦉᦳᧆ (may²ṡud), ᦺᦙᧉᦅᧄᦉᦳᧆ (may²kamṡud)
- Macedonian: точка f (točka)
- Malay: noktah, titik (ms)
- Malayalam: പൂർണ്ണവിരാമം (pūṟṇṇavirāmaṁ)
- Maori: ira kati, kopi
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цэг (mn) (ceg)
- Mongolian: ᠴᠡᠭ (čeg)
- Norman: point m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: punktum (no) n
- Nynorsk: punktum n
- Pashto: نقطه (ps) f (noqta)
- Persian:
- Dari: نُقْطَه (fa) (nuqta)
- Iranian Persian: نُقْطِه (fa) (noğte)
- Polish: kropka (pl) f
- Portuguese: ponto (pt) m
- Romanian: punct (ro) n
- Russian: то́чка (ru) f (tóčka)
- Sanskrit: दंड (sa) m (daṃḍa), ।
- Scottish Gaelic: stad-phuing f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: та̏чка f, то̏чка f
- Roman: tȁčka (sh) f, tȍčka (sh) f
- Slovak: bodka (sk) f
- Slovene: pika (sl) f
- Spanish: punto (es) m
- Swedish: punkt (sv) c
- Tajik: нуқта (nuqta)
- Tatar: нокта (tt) (noqta)
- Telugu: చుక్క (te) (cukka)
- Thai: มหัพภาค (th) (má-hàp-pâak), จุด (th) (jùt), พินทุ (th) (pin-tú)
- Turkish: nokta (tr)
- Turkmen: nokat
- Ukrainian: кра́пка f (krápka), то́чка f (tóčka)
- Urdu: نُقْطَہ m (nuqta), خَتْمَہ m (xatma), ۔ (Urdu symbol)
- Uyghur: نۇقتا (nuqta)
- Uzbek: nuqta (uz)
- Vietnamese: dấu chấm (vi)
- Welsh: atalnod llawn m, diweddnod m
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See also
Punctuation
Interjection
full stop
- (colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.
- We need more people to join IRC, full stop.
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