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Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
- গোপ (Assamese script)
- ᬕᭀᬧ (Balinese script)
- গোপ (Bengali script)
- 𑰐𑰺𑰢 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀕𑁄𑀧 (Brahmi script)
- ဂေါပ (Burmese script)
- ગોપ (Gujarati script)
- ਗੋਪ (Gurmukhi script)
- 𑌗𑍋𑌪 (Grantha script)
- ꦒꦺꦴꦥ (Javanese script)
- 𑂏𑂷𑂣 (Kaithi script)
- ಗೋಪ (Kannada script)
- គោប (Khmer script)
- ໂຄປ (Lao script)
- ഗോപ (Malayalam script)
- ᡤᠣᢒᠠ (Manchu script)
- 𑘐𑘻𑘢 (Modi script)
- ᠺᠣᠸᠠᢒᠠ (Mongolian script)
- 𑦰𑧜𑧂 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐐𑑀𑐥 (Newa script)
- ଗୋପ (Odia script)
- ꢔꣂꢦ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆓𑆾𑆥 (Sharada script)
- 𑖐𑖺𑖢 (Siddham script)
- ගොප (Sinhalese script)
- 𑩞𑩕𑩰 (Soyombo script)
- 𑚌𑚴𑚞 (Takri script)
- கே³ாப (Tamil script)
- గోప (Telugu script)
- โคป (Thai script)
- གོ་པ (Tibetan script)
- 𑒑𑒼𑒣 (Tirhuta script)
- 𑨍𑨆𑨞 (Zanabazar Square script)
Etymology
From गो (go, “cow; earth”) + -प (-pa, “protector”).
Pronunciation
Noun
गोप • (gopá) stem, m (feminine गोपी)
- cowherd, herdsman, milkman
- Synonym: गोपाल (gopāla)
c. 800 CE – 950 CE,
Nārāyaṇa,
Hitopadeśa 2.112.15:
- सा च गोपी तेन गोपेन पुनः पृष्टोवाच अरे पाप को मां महासती विरूपयितुं समर्थः ।
- sā ca gopī tena gopena punaḥ pṛṣṭovāca are pāpa ko māṃ mahāsatī virūpayituṃ samarthaḥ.
- And that cowherdess, the highly virtuous woman, asked the cowherd, O wicked one, who has the power to defile me?
- protector, guardian
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 5.62.9:
- यद्बंहि॑ष्ठं॒ नाति॒विधे॑ सुदानू॒ अच्छि॑द्रं॒ शर्म॑ भुवनस्य गोपा ।
तेन॑ नो मित्रावरुणावविष्टं॒ सिषा॑सन्तो जिगी॒वांसः॑ स्याम ॥- yádbáṃhiṣṭhaṃ nā́tivídhe sudānū ácchidraṃ śárma bhuvanasya gopā.
téna no mitrāvaruṇāvaviṣṭaṃ síṣāsanto jigīvā́ṃsaḥ syāma. - Bountiful guardians of the world! the shelter that is impenetrable, strongest, flawless, Aid us with that, O Varuṇa and Mitra, and when we long to win may we be victors.
Declension
Descendants
References
- Apte, Vaman Shivram (1890) “गोप”, in The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary, Poona: Prasad Prakashan, page 664
- Monier Williams (1899) “गोप”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 368.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024) “gopa”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गोप”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 86
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gopa”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 230