Goa

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

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

Goa

2. 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, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.

   Synonym: Goa trance

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.

• Goa cedar

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

Goa f

1. Goa (a state in western India)

• goès

• Gôa (dated)

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

• Hyphenation: Go‧a

Goa f

1. Goa (a state in western 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)