full stop

See also: fullstop and full-stop

English

full stop (plural full stops)

(Australia, Britain, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

The punctuation mark “.”

Albanian: pikë (sq) f
Arabic: نُقْطَة‎ f (nuqṭa), عَلَامَة فَصْلِيَّة‎ f (ʿalāma 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 (nöktä)
Belarusian: кро́пка f (krópka)
Bengali: (Bengali symbol) । (.)
Bulgarian: то́чка (bg) f (tóčka)
Burmese: (symbol) ။ (my), ၊ (my)
Catalan: punt (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 句號 (zh), 句号 (zh) (jùhào), 句點 (zh), 句点 (zh) (jùdiǎn) (European dot: “.”), 。 (zh) (Chinese symbol)
Chuvash: пӑнчӑ (pănčă)
Czech: tečka (cs) f
Danish: punktum (da) n
Dutch: punt (nl) n
Esperanto: punkto
Estonian: punkt (et)
Finnish: piste (fi)
French: point (fr) m
Georgian: წერტილი (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)
Hungarian: pont (hu)
Icelandic: punktur (is) m
Irish: lánstad 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)
Kalmyk: цег (tseg)
Kazakh: нүкте (kk) (nükte)
Korean: 마침표 (ko) (machimpyo)
Kyrgyz: чекит (ky) (çekit)
Lakota: wóihaŋke
Lao: ຈຸດ (chut)

(colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking.
We need more people to join IRC, full stop.

(and nothing less): and that’s final, and that’s that, it’s as simple as that, period (North America), end of

And nothing less

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