Sindhi

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit गोक्षुर (gokṣura) or possibly borrowed from Gujarati ગોખરુ (gokhru) or Punjabi ਗੋਖਰੂ (gokhrū).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡoː.kʰɪ.ɾuː/
  • Rhymes: -uː
  • Hyphenation: گو‧کِ‧رۇ

Noun

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گوکِرۇ (gokhirūm (Devanagari गोखिरू)

  1. Tribulus lanuginosus

Further reading

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  • Khānu, Balocu (19601988) “گوکِرۇ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ
  • Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “گوکِرۇ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gōkṣura”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 229