Goa
English
Etymology 1
From Portuguese Goa, from Konkani गोंय (gõy), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).
Derived terms
Translations
state in western India
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Noun
Goa (uncountable)
- (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, Jammu and Kashmir, 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)
Proper noun
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 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.
- 1998, Terry G. Lacy, Ring of Seasons, University of Michigan Press 2000, p. 59:
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- Gôa (obsolete)
Spanish
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