गौर

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See also: गरि, गिरी, गोरा, गोर, गोरी, गुरू, गिरि, and गुरु

Hindi

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit गौर (gaura).

Adjective

गौर • (gaur) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling گور)

  1. white
  2. pale
  3. fair

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit गौरी (gaurī).

Proper noun

गौर • (gaur) f (Urdu spelling گور)

  1. Hindu goddess Parvati
Declension
Declension of गौर (sg-only fem cons-stem)
singular
direct गौर
gaur
oblique गौर
gaur
vocative गौर
gaur
Synonyms

Etymology 3

From Arabic غَوْر (ḡawr, “bottom, depth, (fig.) deepness in thought”).

Noun

गौर • (gaur) m (Urdu spelling غور)

  1. nuqtaless form of ग़ौर (ġaur)
Declension
Declension of गौर (masc cons-stem)
singular plural
direct गौर
gaur 		गौर
gaur
oblique गौर
gaur 		गौरों
gaurõ
vocative गौर
gaur 		गौरो
gauro

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

Etymology

Related to गो (go).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

गौर • (gaura) stem

  1. (in comp. or ifc. g. कडारादि) white, yellowish, reddish, pale red
  2. shining, brilliant, clean, beautiful

Noun

गौर • (gaura) stem, m

  1. white, yellowish (the colour)
  2. gaur, a kind of buffalo (Bos gaurus, often classed with the गवय)
  3. white mustard (the seed of which is used as a weight, = 3 राज-सर्षपs)
  4. Grislea tomentosa (धव) L.
  5. a species of rice
  6. the moon
  7. (astronomy) the planet Jupiter
  8. name of the नाग शेष
  9. name of चैतन्य (compare -चन्द्र)
  10. name of a योग teacher (son of शुक and पीवरी)
  11. (in the plural) name of a family (compare °रात्रेय)

Noun

गौर • (gaura) stem, n

  1. white mustard
  2. name of a potherb
  3. saffron (compare कनक-)
  4. the filament of a lotus
  5. gold
  6. orpiment
  7. = गौरिका
  8. the earth
  9. red chalk
  10. a yellow pigment or dye (गो-रोचना, ‘orpiment’)
  11. turmeric (रजनी)
  12. name of several other plants (प्रियंगु, मञ्जिष्ठा, श्वेत-दूर्वा, मल्लिका, तुलसी, सुवर्ण-कदली, आकाश-मांसी)
  13. name of several metres (one of 4×12 syllables; another of 4×13 syllables; another of 4×26 long syllables)
  14. (music) a kind of measure
  15. name of a रागिणी
  16. (Hinduism) ‘brilliant Goddess’, शिव's wife पार्वती
  17. name of वरुण's wife
  18. name of a विद्या-देवी
  19. name of शाक्य-मुनि's mother
  20. name of the wife of वि-रजस् and mother of सु-धामन्
  21. name of several other women
  22. name of several rivers (one originally the wife of प्रसेन-जित् or युवनाश्व, changed by his curse into the river बाहु-दा.); ()

Descendants

  • → Old Javanese: gora
    • > Javanese: ꦒꦺꦴꦫ (gora) (inherited)

References

  • Monier William's Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. 1899
  1. ^ “gaur”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
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