Goa

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

Goa

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

Goa (uncountable)

1. (music) A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.

   Synonym: Goa trance

• (states of India) state of India; 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, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal ^{(Category: en:States of India)}

From Icelandic góa.

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.

• AGO, AOG, GAO, Gao, ago, oga

Goa f

1. Goa (a state of India)

• goès

• Gôa (dated)

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

• Hyphenation: Go‧a

Goa f

1. Goa (a state of India)

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

• goano
• goense
• goês

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

Goa ?

1. Goa (a state in western India)