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How do you call this "point" Indians have between their eyebrows?

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How do you call this "point" Indians have between their eyebrows?

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  1. its called a bindi, its like jewlery


  2. it a bindi/tikli and only girls have it unless ur at a temple

  3. It is called Bindi.    A bindi is a forehead decoration worn in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Traditionally it is a dot of red color applied in the center of the forehead close to the eyebrows, but it can also consist of a sign or piece of jewelry worn at this location.

    Traditionally, married Hindu women wear a bindi. The traditional bindi is made with red sindoor powder or perhaps a black ointment. The bindi is a form of tilak, religious Hindu signs worn on the forehead. Nowadays, bindis are also worn by women who are not married, children, and by women who are not Hindu.

    Outside South Asia, bindis may be worn by women of Indian origin.

    Bindi is called in different names in different languages of India such as:

    Tikli in Marathi

    Pottu in Tamil and Malayalam

    Tilak in Hindi

    Bottu or Tilakam (in Telugu)

    Bottu or Tilaka (in Kannada)

    Teep (meaning "a pressing") (in Bengali)

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