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Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit गोपी (gopī). By surface analysis, गोप (gop) + -ई (-ī).
Pronunciation
Noun
गोपी • (gopī) f (masculine गोप, Urdu spelling گوپی)
- milkmaid; cowherdess; milkman or cowherd's wife
- Synonyms: ग्वाली (gvālī), ग्वालिन (gvālin)
- (Hinduism) gopi
- Synonyms: गोपिका (gopikā), गोपिन (gopin)
Declension
Declension of गोपी (fem ī-stem)
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singular
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plural
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गोपी
gopī
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गोपियाँ
gopiyā̃
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गोपी
gopī
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गोपियों
gopiyõ
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गोपी
gopī
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गोपियो
gopiyo
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References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “गोपी”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 278
- Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “गोपी”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 1348
- Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “गोपी”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House, page 183
- Platts, John T. (1884) “गोपी”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 922
- “गोपी”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
Sanskrit
Alternative scripts
Etymology
गोप (gopa, “milkman; cowboy; gopa”) + -ई (-ī, feminine-forming suffix)
Pronunciation
Noun
गोपी • (gopī) stem, f (Classical Sanskrit)
- milkmaid; cowherdess; milkman or cowherd's wife
- (Hinduism) gopi
c. 700 CE – 900 CE,
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.84.69:
- नन्दो गोपाश्च गोप्यश्च गोविन्दचरणाम्बुजे । मनः क्षिप्तं पुनर्हर्तुमनीशा मथुरां ययुः ॥
- nando gopāśca gopyaśca govindacaraṇāmbuje. manaḥ kṣiptaṃ punarhartumanīśā mathurāṃ yayuḥ.
- Unable to withdraw their minds from Lord Krishna’s lotus feet, where they had surrendered them, Nanda and the gopas and gopis returned to Mathurā.
Declension
Descendants
References
- Monier Williams (1899) “गोपी”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 368.
- Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “gopī”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
- Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1893) “गोपी”, in A practical Sanskrit dictionary with transliteration, accentuation, and etymological analysis throughout, London: Oxford University Press, page 86
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “gōpī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 230