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Goa

//ˈɡoʊə// name, noun, phrase

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A state in western India. Capital: Panaji.
  2. 2
    The fifth winter month of the traditional Icelandic calendar, running from mid-February to mid-March.

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes. uncountable
  2. 2
    A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.
Phrase
  1. 1
    Initialism of gone on arrival (“where the intended target was not present at the location that was sought when an agent arrived”). US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

From Icelandic góa.

Etymology 4

From Tibetan dgoba.

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