goa

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see also: Goa

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Noun

goa (plural goas)

1. The Tibetan gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, a species of antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.

Translations

• Russian: тибе́тский дзере́н

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Goa

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Proper noun

1. State in western India which has Panaji as its capital.

Translations

• French: Goa
• German: Goa
• Italian: Goa
• Portuguese: Goa
• Russian: Го́а
• Spanish: Goa

Noun

goa (uncountable)

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

Proper noun

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 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.

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