As a Hindi name
गो · noun · feminine
गाय । गऊ · प्रकाशरश्मि । किरण · वृष राशि — Śabdasāgara
गो · noun · masculine
बैल · नंदी नामक शिवगण · घोड़ा — Śabdasāgara
गो · go · s.m.
& f. A bull, an ox; a cow — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 921
गो · go
(dialec.), A pleonastic suffix added to nouns denoting number (e.g. do-go, or dū-go = do; kaʼī-go = kaʼī = kitne — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 921
गो · masculine
Go
गो · masculine
cow; ox
a Hindi word of English origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Borrowed from English go, from the Japanese character 碁 (go), shorthand for Japanese 囲碁 (igo), adopted from the Chinese character 圍棋 /围棋 (wéiqí).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word, a tatsama: the Sanskrit word borrowed unchanged into Hindi गो — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Learned borrowing from Sanskrit गो (gó). Doublet of गाय (gāy).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
go gaus (acc. gām instr. gavā dat. gave, gen. abl. gos loc. gavi; du. gāvā [Ved.], gāvau; pl. nom. gāvas acc. gās [rarely gāvas, TBr. iii; TUp.; MBh. iv, 1506; R. ii] instr. gobhis dat. abl. gobhyas, gen. gavām [once at the end of a Pāda, RV. iv, 1, 19] and [in RV. at the end of Pādas only, cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 57] gonām loc. goṣu) m. an ox f. a cow, (pl.) cattle, kine, herd of cattle, RV. &c. (in comp. before vowels [cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 122 ff.] gav, gava, qq.vv.; cf. also gavām, gavi, gāṃ ss.vv.; gavāṃ vrata, N. of a Sāman; gavāṃ tīrtha, see go t˚; goṣu-√ gam, to set out for a battle [to conquer cows] RV. ii, 25, 4; v, 45, 9; viii, 71, 5)
‘anything coming from or belonging to an ox or cow’, milk (generally pl.), flesh (only pl. RV. x, 16, 7; ‘fat’, Gmn.), skin, hide, leather, strap of leather, bow-string, sinew (RV. x, 27, 22; AV. i, 2, 3), RV.
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
gaus (acc. gām instr. gavā dat. gave, gen. abl. gos loc. gavi; du. gāvā [Ved.], gāvau; pl. nom. gāvas acc. gās [rarely gāvas, ] instr. gobhis dat. abl. gobhyas, gen. gavām [once at…
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M1 · same meaning "go" is the vocative of "gu" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Gender counterpart
The kosha attests this stem in the feminine and the masculine — the same name serves without alteration.
Dictionary citations
go gaus (acc. gām instr. gavā dat. gave, gen. abl. gos loc. gavi; du. gāvā [Ved.], gāvau; pl. nom. gāvas acc. gās [rarely gāvas, TBr. iii; TUp.; MBh. iv, 1506; R. ii] instr. gobhis dat. abl. gobhyas, gen. gavām [once at the end of a Pāda, RV. iv, 1, 19] and [in RV. at the end of Pādas only, cf. Pāṇ. vii, 1, 57] gonām loc. goṣu) m. an ox f. a cow, (pl.) cattle, kine, herd of cattle, RV. &c. (in comp. before vowels [cf. Pāṇ. vi, 1, 122 ff.] gav, gava, qq.vv.; cf. also gavām, gavi, gāṃ ss.vv.; gavāṃ vrata, N. of a Sāman; gavāṃ tīrtha, see go t˚; goṣu-√ gam, to set out for a battle [to conquer cows] RV. ii, 25, 4; v, 45, 9; viii, 71, 5)
‘anything coming from or belonging to an ox or cow’, milk (generally pl.), flesh (only pl. RV. x, 16, 7; ‘fat’, Gmn.), skin, hide, leather, strap of leather, bow-string, sinew (RV. x, 27, 22; AV. i, 2, 3), RV.
= go-ṣṭoma (q.v.), AitBr. iv, 15; ŚBr. xiii (see also go-āyus)
(pl.) ‘the herds of the sky’, the stars, RV. i, 154, 6 and vii, 36, 1
(m. [also f., Uṇ., Sch.]) rays of light (regarded as the herds of the sky, for which Indra fights with Vṛtra), MBh. i, iii; Hariv. 2943; R. &c.
1. gu (cf. √ 1. gā) cl. 1. Ā. gavate, to go, Naigh. ii, 14.
2. gu ifc. ‘going’, see adhri-gu, vanar-gu (cf. also priyaṃgu, śāci-gu)
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