Goa

Goa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "goa"

English

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Goa

1. A 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 (bn) (goya) Bishnupriya Manipuri: গৱা Bulgarian: Го́а f (Góa) Burmese: ဂိုအာ (guia) 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) (goā), गोवा m (govā) 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: ហ្គោអា (gooʼaa) 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) (goa) Persian: گوا‎ (fa) Polish: Goa (pl) Portuguese: Goa (pt) Punjabi: ਗੋਵਾ (govā) Romanian: Goa Russian: Го́а (ru) m (Góa) Sanskrit: गोवा (govā) Santali: ᱜᱳᱣᱟ (gova) 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 (es) Swedish: Goa Tajik: Гуа (Gua) Tamil: கோவா (kōvā) Telugu: గోవా (te) (gōvā) Thai: รัฐกัว (rát gua), กัว (th) (gua) Turkish: Goa Ukrainian: Го́а (Hóa), Ґо́а (Góa) Urdu: گوا‎ (govā) 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, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, 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 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, oga

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Catalan

Proper noun

Goa f

1. Goa (a state of India)

Derived terms

• goès

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Gôa (obsolete)

Etymology

From Konkani गोंय, from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.a/

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

• Hyphenation: Go‧a

Proper noun

Goa f

1. Goa (a state of India)

Usage notes

Goa is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

Derived terms

• goano
• goense
• goês

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡoa/ [ˈɡo.a]
• Rhymes: -oa
• Syllabification: Go‧a

Proper noun

Goa ?

1. Goa (a state in western India)