different between goa vs goy

English

Etymology

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Noun

goa (plural goas)

1. The Tibetan gazelle, Procapra picticaudata, a species of antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.

Translations

Further reading

• Goa (antelope) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Procapra picticaudata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Procapra picticaudata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• AGO, AOG, GAO, Gao, ago

Abenaki

Noun

goa (plural goak)

1. the white pine, Pinus strobus

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin goa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.a/
• Rhymes: -?a
• Hyphenation: gòa

Noun

goa f (plural goe)

1. (historical) A unit of measure of length, equivalent to 0.7442 m

References

• goa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Lindu

Noun

goa

1. corn

Plautdietsch

Adjective

goa

1. cooked
2. done
3. baked

English

Alternative forms

• Goy
• goi, Goi

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ???? (goy, “gentile”), from Hebrew ?????? (goi, “nation”).

Compare Exodus 19:6: ????? ????? ???? ???? (mamlekhet kohanim wegoy qadosh, “ […] a kingdom of priests and a holy nation”) (referring to the Jewish people). The word goy technically refers not to non-Jews, but rather to a nation per se; the Jews are said to constitute a “goy”. But through common usage – namely referring to "the [other non-Jewish] nations" – the word came to colloquially refer to non-Jews.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

goy (plural goyim or goys or goyem)

1. A non-Jew, a gentile. (See usage notes)

   Synonyms: akum, gentile, shegetz, shkotz

   Hyponym: (female) shiksa

Usage notes

This noun is sometimes taken to be offensive; speakers wishing to avoid offense may prefer the term gentile (sometimes capitalized as Gentile) or simply non-Jew.

Derived terms

• anti-goy
• antigoyism
• anti-goyish
• goyish
• shabbos goy

Translations

Anagrams

• ygo

Anguthimri

Noun

goy

1. (Mpakwithi) buck wallaby

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew ????.

Noun

goy m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ????, plural goyim, feminine goya)

1. goy, gentile, non-Jew

Portuguese

Noun

goy m, f (plural goys)

1. Alternative spelling of gói