गोदावरी

Sanskrit

Etymology

From गो (go, “water”) + द (da, “what gives”). Literally "granting water or kine".

Proper noun

गोदावरी • (godāvarī)

1. Name of a river in the Indian peninsula, the Godavari.

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “गोदावरी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 365.