गोदावरी

Sanskrit

Etymology

From गो (go, “water”) + द (da, “what gives”). Literally "granting water or kine".

Proper noun

गोदावरी • (godāvarī)

Name of a river in the Indian peninsula, the Godavari.

References

Monier Williams (1899), “गोदावरी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 365.

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