गोरू

Hindi

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit गोरूप (gorūpa, “form of a cow”).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /ɡoː.ɾuː/

Noun

गोरू • (gorū) m pl (Urdu spelling گورو)

1. (now poetic or dialectal) cattle

   Synonym: गाय (gāy)

Declension

Declension of गोरू (pl-only masc ū-stem)

	plural
direct	गोरू gorū
oblique	गोरुओं goruõ
vocative	गोरुओ goruo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “गोरू”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Misra, Bal Govind (1967) Historical Phonology of Modern Standard Hindi: Proto-Indo-European to the Present, Cornell University, page 205