different between gopi vs gopik

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (gop?).

Noun

gopi (plural gopis)

1. (India) Any of the milkmaids that were companions of Krishna in Indian mythology.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 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.

Related terms

• Gopinath

Anagrams

• GPIO

Rawang

Etymology

From Burmese ?????? (kauhpi), from English coffee.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?(?).p?i?/

Noun

gopi

1. coffee.

Welsh

Noun

gopi

1. Soft mutation of copi.

Mutation

English

Noun

gopik (plural gopiks or gopik)

1. Alternative form of qapik
   • 1995, Fielding's ‘The World's Most Dangerous Places’, page 170:

     While the local currency is the manat, the Russian ruble is in circulation and prices are often confusingly quoted in manats and rubles. […] The currency is the manat with a hundred gopik […]

   • 1997, Islam and the Modern Age, volume 28, page 330:

     One Azerbaijani manat is equivalent to 100 gopiks. The exchange rate prevailing in September 1995 was $1 equivalent to 4,395 manats.

   • 2000, Worldmark Yearbook, volume 1, page 193:

     The manat, consisting of 100 gopik, was introduced in 1992 and remains tied to the Russian ruble with widely fluctuating exchange rates.

   • 2002, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies ?ISBN, page 25:

     One manat equals 100 gopiks; however, there are no gopiks in circulation due to inflation in the early 1990s.