As a Hindi name
गोला · noun · masculine
किसी पदार्थ का कुछ बड़ा गोल पिंड । जैसे,—लोहे का गोला, रस्सी का गोला, भाँग का गोला · लोहे का वह गोला पिंड जिसमें बहुत सी छोटी छोटी गोलियाँ, मेखें आदि भरकर युद्ध में तोपों की सहायता से शत्रुओं पर फेंकते हैं · एक प्रकार का रोग जिसमें थोड़ी थोड़ी देर पर पेट के अंदर नाभि से गले तक वायु का एक गोला आता जाता जान पड़ता है; और जिसमें रोगी को बहुत अधिक कष्ट होता है । वायुगोला — Śabdasāgara
गोला · noun · feminine
गोदावरी नदी · सहेली । सखी · मंडल — Śabdasāgara
गोला · golā · s.m.
A ball; a cannon-ball — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 926
गोला · golā · s.f.
A ball; a globe ( = gola) — Platts (1884), digital edition courtesy DSAL, University of Chicago, p. 926
गोला · masculine
ball; cannonball; globe, orb, sphere; planet, world
Cited formation "गोला" is गोल + -आ: गोल means "circle, circular object", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "गोला" is गोल + -आ: गोल means "circle, circular object", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word, a tadbhava: evolved from the Sanskrit through Prakrit गोलक — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Inherited from Prakrit 𑀕𑁄𑀮𑀅 (golaa), from Sanskrit गोलक (golaka). Compare गोल (gol).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
golaka m. a ball or globe, BhP. v, 16, 4; VS. xxxi, 22, Sch. &c.
a ball for playing with, Hariv. 15549
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a ball to play with
Verified derivationMultiple readings (2)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "golā" is the feminine form of "gola" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
M1 · same meaning "golā" is the nominative of "goloman" — the same word in a different grammatical case.
Related forms
Dictionary citations
golā f. a ball to play with, L.
red arsenic, L.
ink, L.
a woman's female friend, L.
N. of Durgā, L.
gola m. (= guḍa) ‘a ball’, see -krīḍā
globe (as the celestial globe or as the globe of the sun or of the earth), Sūryas.; Sūryapr.; BhP. &c.
go—loman n. a cow's hair (from which Dūrvā grass is said to spring), Pāṇ. i, 4, 30; Pat.; Pañcat. i, 1, 81.
Alternative readings
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