gopi

English

Etymology

From Sanskrit गोपी (gopī).

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.

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Noun

gopi

  1. Soft mutation of copi.
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