Goa
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "goa"
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Portuguese Goa, from Konkani गोंय (goiya), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).
Proper noun
[edit]Goa
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]state in western India
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Noun
[edit]Goa (uncountable)
- (music) A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.
- Synonym: Goa trance
See also
[edit]- (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
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]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, published 2000, page 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
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Goa f
Derived terms
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Konkani गोंय (goiya), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: Go‧a
Proper noun
[edit]Goa f
Usage notes
[edit]Goa is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.
Derived terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Goa ?
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Konkani
- English terms derived from Sanskrit
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Goa
- en:States of India
- en:Places in India
- English nouns
- en:Music
- English terms borrowed from Icelandic
- English terms derived from Icelandic
- English terms with quotations
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns
- ca:Goa
- ca:States of India
- ca:Places in India
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Konkani
- Portuguese terms derived from Konkani
- Portuguese terms derived from Sanskrit
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Goa
- pt:States of India
- pt:Places in India
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oa
- Rhymes:Spanish/oa/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- es:Goa
- es:States of India
- es:Places in India