Goa
English
Etymology 1
From Portuguese Goa, from Konkani गोंय (gõy), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).
Proper noun
Goa
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Derived terms
Translations
state in western India
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Noun
Goa (uncountable)
- (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, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala/Keralam, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal (Category: en:States of India)
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Icelandic góa.
Proper noun
Goa
- 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.
- 1998, Terry G. Lacy, Ring of Seasons, University of Michigan Press 2000, p. 59:
Anagrams
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- Gôa (obsolete)
Pronunciation
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Proper noun
Goa f
Spanish
Proper noun
Goa ?
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