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• گو (gow), گا (gâ) (dialectal)

From Middle Persian (TWRA /⁠gāw⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎥𐎢 (g-u), from Proto-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

Cognate to English cow, Urdu گائے (gāe) / Hindi गाय (gāy), Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊 (gao), Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs), Latin bōs.

• (Iran, some dialects) IPA^(key): /ɡow/

گاو • (gâv) (plural گاوها (gâv-hâ))

1. cow, bull, cattle
   • c. 1260, Rumi, “5:3500”, in The Masnavi:

     او اگر دیوانه است و فتنه‌کاو، داروی دیوانه باشد کیر گاو.

     u agar divâne ast o fetne-kâv, dâru-ye divâne bâšad kir-e gâv.

     If he is mad and bent on mischief, the cure for a madman is an ox-hide whip.

     (Reynold A. Nicholson translation)

2. (astronomy) the constellation Taurus
   • 1192, Nizami Ganjavi, “Layla and Majnun”, in Khamsa:

     گاو فلکی چو گاو دریا، گوهر بگلو در از ثریا.

     gâv-e falaki čo gâv-e daryâ, gowhar be-galu dorr az sorayyâ.

     the celestial Bull, like the cow of the sea, has on its neck gems, and pearls from the Pleiades.

• → Urdu: گاو (gāv, gāo)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “گاو”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

From Classical Persian گاو (gāw, “cow”), from Middle Persian (TWRA /⁠gāw⁠/), from Old Persian (/⁠gaua⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gāuš (“cow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow, cattle”).

Cognate with Pashto غوا (ǧwâ), Punjabi گاں (gāṉ), Kashmiri گاو (gāv), Wakhi ږوْؤ (ɣɨu), Yagnobi ғов (γow), Bactrian γαοι (gāw), Khotanese 𐨒𐨂𐨌𐨱𐨌 (gūhā), and Avestan 𐬔𐬀𐬊 (gao).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɡɑːʋ/, /ɡɑː.oː/

گاو • (gāv or gāo) m (Hindi spelling गाव)

1. cow, bull, ox

   Synonym: گائے (gāe)

2. cattle

• گاو پَرواری (gāv-parvārī, “fostering cattle, taking care of cattle”)
• گاوا گھی (gāvā-ghī, “cow ghee”)
• گَہْوارَہ (gāh^ávāra^h, “cradle, place of origin, place of birth”)
• گہوارہ جنبانی (gāh^ávāra^h-e-junbānī, “rocking cradle”)
• گاؤ کُشی (gāv-kušī, “cow-slaughter, cow-sacrifice”)
• گاوا گوشْت (gāvā-gošt, “beef, cow-meat”)
• گاو خانَہ (gāv-xāna^h, “cowshed, cattle-pound”)
• گاو پُشْت (gāv-pušt, “sloping like a cow's back, (metaphorically) the sky”)
• گاو پَیکَر (gāv-paikar, “bull-figured, one with a mighty build”)
• گاو زور (gāv-zōr, “powerful, mighty”)
• گاو خورد (gāv-xurd, “destroyed, ruinous, ruined”)
• گاوزوری (gāvzorī, “violence, brutality, wrestling”)
• گاو چَشْم (gāv-čaš^ám, “large-eyed”)
• گاو تَکِیَہ (gāv-takīya, “a long cylindrical pillow”)
• گاو دُم (gāv-dum, “cow-tail, anything thick on one end and thin on the other, slippery, sloping”)
• گاو دَبی (gāv-dabī, “mindless, simpleton”)