Goa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "goa"

English

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Goa

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Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊə/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈɡowɑ/

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Goa

2. A state in western India. Capital: Panaji.

Derived terms

• Goa bean
• Goan
• Goa powder
• North Goa
• South Goa

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) (gōẇa) 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 (ja) (Goa) Kannada: ಗೋವ (kn) (gōva) Khmer: ហ្គោអា (gooʼaa) Konkani: गोंय (goiya) 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 Odia: ଗୋଆ (or) (goā) Persian: گوا (fa) Polish: Goa (pl) Portuguese: Goa (pt) Punjabi: ਗੋਵਾ (govā) Romanian: Goa Russian: Го́а (ru) m (Góa) Sanskrit: गोवा (govā) Santali: ᱜᱳᱣᱟ (sat) (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: กัว (th) (guua) 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, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.

   Synonym: Goa trance

See also

states of Indiaedit

• 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
• Uttarakhand
• Uttar Pradesh
• 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, 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.

See also

• Goa cedar

Anagrams

• OGA, GAO, oga, AGO, ago, AOG, OAG, Gao, Oga

Catalan

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

Goa

Wikipedia ^ca

Proper noun

Goa f

1. Goa (a state in western India)

Derived terms

• goès

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Gôa (dated)

Etymology

From Konkani गोंय (goiya), 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/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo.ɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo(w).ɐ/

• Hyphenation: Go‧a

Proper noun

Goa f

1. Goa (a state in western India)

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• goano
• goense
• goês

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Goa

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Goa ?

1. Goa (a state in western India)