gopi
English
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editgopi (plural gopis)
- (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.
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editFrom Burmese ကော်ဖီ (kauhpi), from Dutch koffie, also influenced by English coffee.
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editgopi
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editgopi
- Soft mutation of copi.
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