Goa

See also: goa, Gôa, goá, góa, and Goα

English

Etymology 1

From Portuguese Goa, from Konkani गोंय (gõy), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).

Proper noun

Goa

1. State in western India which has Panaji as its capital.

Derived terms

• Goa powder
• Goan

Translations

state in western India

• Arabic: غْوَا‎‎ m (ḡwā)
• Armenian: Գոա (Goa)
• Assamese: গোৱা (güa)
• Asturian: Goa f
• Belarusian: Го́а m (Hóa)
• Bengali: গোয়া (goya)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: গৱা
• Bulgarian: Го́а f (Góa)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: Goa
• Chhattisgarhi: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 果阿邦 (Guǒ'ā-bāng), 果阿 (zh) (Guǒ'ā)

• Czech: Goa f
• Danish: Goa
• Dhivehi: ގޯވާ‎‎ (gōvā)
• Dutch: Goa (nl)
• Esperanto: Goao
• Estonian: Goa
• Extremaduran: Goa
• Finnish: Goa
• French: Goa (fr)
• Galician: Goa
• Georgian: გოა (goa)
• German: Goa (de)
• Greek: Γκόα (el) (Gkóa)
• Gujarati: ગોઆ (goā)
• Hebrew: גואה‎‎
• Hindi: गोआ (hi) (go'ā)
• Hungarian: Goa (hu)
• Indonesian: Goa
• Interlingua: Goa
• Irish: Goa m
• Italian: Goa
• Japanese: ゴア州 (Goa-shū), ゴア (Goa)
• Kannada: ಗೋವ (kn) (gōva)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Konkani: गोंय

• Korean: 고아 주 (Goa ju), 고아 (ko) (Goa)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: Goa
• Latvian: Goa
• Lithuanian: Goa
• Macedonian: Гоа f (Goa)
• Malay: Goa
• Malayalam: ഗോവ (gōva)
• Marathi: गोवा (govā)
• Mizo: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: गोआ (goā)
• Northern Sami: Goa
• Norwegian: Goa
• Oriya: ଗୋଆ (or) (gōā)
• Persian: گوا‎‎ (fa)
• Polish: Goa (pl)
• Portuguese: Goa (pt)
• Punjabi: ਗੋਵਾ (govā)
• Romanian: Goa
• Russian: Го́а (ru) m (Góa)
• Sanskrit: गोवा (govā)
• Santali: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: Гоа, Goa
• Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: Goa f
• Slovene: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: Goa
• Swedish: Goa
• Tajik: Гуа (Gua)
• Tamil: கோவா (kōvā)
• Telugu: గోవా (te) (gōvā)
• Thai: รัฐกัว (rát gua), กัว (gua)
• Turkish: Goa
• Ukrainian: Го́а (Hóa), Ґо́а (Góa)
• Urdu: گوا‎‎ (go'ā)
• Vietnamese: Goa
• Welsh: Goa

Noun

Goa (uncountable)

1. (music) A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India (also Goa trance).

See also

• (states of India) state of India; Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal

Etymology 2

From Icelandic góa.

Proper noun

Goa

1. The fifth winter month of the traditional Icelandic calendar, running from mid-February to mid-March.
   • 1998, Terry G. Lacy, Ring of Seasons, University of Michigan Press 2000, p. 59:

     The month of Thorri was followed by Góa, when the farmer often left to go fishing and his wife had to see to managing the household.

   • 2012, Julian Meldon D'Arcy, translating Þórbergur Þórðarson, The Stones Speak, in Of Icelandic Nobles and Idiot Savants, Brú 2014, p. 147:

     In the last week of Goa, in mid-March, there occurred an example of God's great providence: a large schooner from Dunkirk in France ran aground on one of the Hálsasker skerries off the coast of the eastern part of Suðursveit.

Anagrams

• AGO, AOG, GAO, Gao, ago

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Gôa (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ɐ/

Proper noun

Goa f

1. Goa (a state of India)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Goa ?

1. Goa (state in western India)