name
Meaning 1
A state in western India. Capital: Panaji.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Goa
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈɡoʊə/
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CMU ARPABET: G OW1 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
The fifth winter month of the traditional Icelandic calendar, running from mid-February to mid-March.
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noun
Meaning 3
A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Goa trance
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.
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phrase
Meaning 5
Initialism of gone on arrival (“where the intended target was not present at the location that was sought when an agent arrived”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: government, law-enforcement
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noun
Meaning 6
a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: state, province
History
Etymology
From Portuguese Goa, from Konkani गोंय (goiya), from Sanskrit गोमन्त (gomanta).
Borrowed from Icelandic góa.
Unknown, possibly from Tibetan dgoba.
Across languages
Translations
78 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: غْوَا (ḡwā) — state in western India
- Armenian: Գոա — state in western India
- Assamese: গোৱা (güa) — state in western India
- Asturian: Goa — state in western India
- Belarusian: Го́а (Hóa) — state in western India
- Bengali: গোয়া (gōẇa) — state in western India
- Bulgarian: Го́а (Góa) — state in western India
- Burmese: ဂိုအာ (guia) — state in western India
- Catalan: Goa — state in western India
- Chinese Mandarin: 果阿邦 (Guǒ'ā-bāng) — state in western India
- Chinese Mandarin: 果阿 (Guǒ'ā) — state in western India
- Czech: Goa — state in western India
- Danish: Goa — state in western India
- Dhivehi: ގޯވާ (gōvā) — state in western India
- Dutch: Goa — state in western India
- Esperanto: Goao — state in western India
- Estonian: Goa — state in western India
- Extremaduran: Goa — state in western India
- Finnish: Goa — state in western India
- French: Goa — state in western India
- Galician: Goa — state in western India
- Georgian: გოა (goa) — state in western India
- German: Goa — state in western India
- Greek: Γκόα (Gkóa) — state in western India
- Gujarati: ગોઆ (goā) — state in western India
- Hebrew: גואה — state in western India
- Hindi: गोआ (goā) — state in western India
- Hindi: गोवा (govā) — state in western India
- Hungarian: Goa — state in western India
- Indonesian: Goa — state in western India
- Interlingua: Goa — state in western India
- Irish: Goa — state in western India
- Italian: Goa — state in western India
- Japanese: ゴア — state in western India
- Japanese: ゴア州 (Goa-shū) — state in western India
- Kannada: ಗೋವ (gōva) — state in western India
- Khmer: ហ្គោអា (gooʼaa) — state in western India
- Konkani: गोंय (goiya) — state in western India
- Korean: 고아 주 (Goa ju) — state in western India
- Korean: 고아 — state in western India
- Latin: Goa — state in western India
- Latvian: Goa — state in western India
- Lithuanian: Goa — state in western India
- Macedonian: Гоа — state in western India
- Malay: Goa — state in western India
- Malayalam: ഗോവ (gōva) — state in western India
- Bishnupriya Manipuri: গৱা — state in western India
- Marathi: गोवा (govā) — state in western India
- Nepali: गोआ (goā) — state in western India
- Norwegian: Goa — state in western India
- Odia: ଗୋଆ (goā) — state in western India
- Persian: گوا — state in western India
- Polish: Goa — state in western India
- Portuguese: Goa — state in western India
- Punjabi: ਗੋਵਾ (govā) — state in western India
- Romanian: Goa — state in western India
- Russian: Го́а (Góa) — state in western India
- Northern Sami: Goa — state in western India
- Sanskrit: गोवा (govā) — state in western India
- Santali: ᱜᱳᱣᱟ (gova) — state in western India
- Serbo-Croatian: Гоа — state in western India
- Serbo-Croatian: Goa — state in western India
- Slovak: Goa — state in western India
- Spanish: Goa — state in western India
- Swedish: Goa — state in western India
- Tajik: Гуа (Gua) — state in western India
- Tamil: கோவா (kōvā) — state in western India
- Telugu: గోవా (gōvā) — state in western India
- Thai: กัว (guua) — state in western India
- Turkish: Goa — state in western India
- Ukrainian: Го́а (Hóa) — state in western India
- Ukrainian: Ґо́а (Góa) — state in western India
- Urdu: گوا (govā) — state in western India
- Vietnamese: Goa — state in western India
- Welsh: Goa — state in western India
- Chinese Mandarin: 藏原羚 — Procapra picticaudata
- Romanian: gazelă tibetană — Procapra picticaudata
- Russian: тибе́тский дзере́н (tibétskij dzɛrɛ́n) — Procapra picticaudata