gopi

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit गोपी (gopī).

Noun

gopi (plural gopis)

  1. (India) Any of the milkmaids that were companions of Krishna in Indian mythology.
    • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 413:
      The gopis were, as usual, filling their pots with water on the banks of the Jamuna when the god with a thousand names took out a catapult and one by one broke the pots on their heads and ogled at the drenched ladies.

Anagrams

Rawang

Etymology

From Burmese ကော်ဖီ (kauhpi), from Dutch koffie, also influenced by English coffee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ(˧).pʰi˧/

Noun

gopi

  1. coffee.

Welsh

Noun

gopi

  1. soft mutation of copi

Mutation

Mutated forms of copi
radical soft nasal aspirate
copi gopi nghopi chopi

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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