gora

• gaura, ghora

From Hindustani گورا (gorā) / गोरा (gorā). In British Pakistani speech, influenced by Punjabi گورا (gorā).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡəʊɹə/, /-ɑː/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɡoːɾaː/

gora (not comparable)

1. (South Asia) Pertaining to a fair-skinned or European person. [from 19th c.]
   • 2007, Harold M. Bergsma, One Way to Pakistan: A Novel, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 199:

     "Sir! Yes." He saluted, did an about face and marched off. Sher swiveled around in his chair and looked fondly at the picture of the huge dead tiger and the embarrassed looking white, gora king, Edward.

   • 2011, Michelle Superle, Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature: Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 117:

     Barun enjoys this gora food as much as Indian food, but he comes to recognise its symbolic associations and power, becoming troubled by his own patterns of consumption.

   • 2022, Moni Mohsin, Between You, Me & The Four Walls: The Social Butterfly Bulletin, Penguin Random House India Private Limited, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     So Myra, whose daughter is studying in Stand Ford (I think so it's in LA only), says people there voted for Hilary and they all hate Trump, so she's safe (and in any case she's very gora and she's dyed her hair blonde) but Sunny, whose smaller son is in Cantucky, where there are lots of Trump kay log, is so scared she's thinking of calling him back.

gora (plural goras)

1. (British Pakistani, Pakistan, North India) A white person; a European. [from 19th c.]
   • 2023, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, The Centre, Picador, page 41:

     Every day after that, my parents showed off their daughter's Urdu-speaking gora ‘friend’ to anyone who walked through the door.

• gora complex

• gori

• “gora”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “gora”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• gora in A Dictionary of English Slang & Colloquialisms; Ted Duckworth.
• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “gora”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• goar, Argo, Goar, rago, Rago, Agro, grao, agro, Garo, agro-

• IPA^(key): /ɡō.rā/

gora (plural gori, focus gora, plural focus goriya)

1. brown horse; ginger horse

• duma

• IPA^(key): /ɡorə/
• Hyphenation: go‧ra

From Sanskrit गौर (gaura).

gora (Balinese script ᬕᭀᬭ)

1. gold

From Sanskrit घोर (ghora).

gora (Balinese script ᬖᭀᬭ)

1. giant

From an earlier form goira (still in use in Biscayan), from goi (“up, high”) +‎ -ra (allative suffix).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɡoɾa/ [ɡo.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -oɾa, -a
• Hyphenation: go‧ra

gora (comparative gorago, superlative goren, excessive goregi)

1. up

gora

1. long live

• “gora”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “gora”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

From Spanish gorra.

• Hyphenation: go‧ra

gora

1. a baseball cap

gora

1. inflection of gorar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Spanish gorra.

gora

1. bonnet, cap

Perhaps borrowed from Lombardic wer (“dam, weir”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Hyphenation: gò‧ra

gora f (plural gore)

1. canal (for irrigation)
2. mill race

• Argo, agro, agro-, argo, roga

gora

1. romanization of ꦒꦺꦴꦫ

gora f

1. superseded spelling of góra

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɔ.ɾa]
• Hyphenation: go‧ra

gora

1. rose apple (any of various Syzygium species)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈkora/

gora

1. inflection of gorrat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Borrowed from Indo-Aryan. Compare Hindi घोड़ा (ghoṛā).

gora

1. horse

• P. T. Abraham (2005), A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎^[1], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

Borrowed from Sanskrit गौर (gaura, “white, yellowish, reddish, pale red”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡora/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Homophone: ghora
• Hyphenation: go‧ra

gora

1. pale of skin

• > Javanese: ꦒꦺꦴꦫ (gora) (inherited)

• "gora" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

gora

1. inflection of gorar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *garā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-. Cognate with Slovene gora.

• IPA^(key): /ɡǒra/
• Hyphenation: go‧ra

gòra f (Cyrillic spelling го̀ра)

1. mountain
2. (regional, Croatia) hill, highland
3. (by extension, Croatia) forest, woods (forested hilly area)

• gòrskī
• gore

• brijeg
• planina
• brdo
• hrib

• “gora”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *gora, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔ̀ːra/
• Hyphenation: go‧ra

góra f

1. (geography) mountain
2. (geography) forest, woods (forested hilly area)

   Šel je v goro po hlode. ― He went to the woods to get logs. (literally, “He went to the woods for logs.”)

3. (regional) vineyard
4. (colloquial) heap, pile, mountain (a large mass of something)

   cela gora smeti ― a whole heap of rubbish

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	gôra
gen. sing.	gôre
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	gôra	gôri	gôre
genitive (rodȋlnik)	gôre	gôr	gôr
dative (dajȃlnik)	gôri	gôrama	gôram
accusative (tožȋlnik)	gôro	gôri	gôre
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	gôri	gôrah	gôrah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	gôro	gôrama	gôrami

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem, long mixed accent
nom. sing.	gôra
gen. sing.	goré
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	gôra	goré	goré
genitive (rodȋlnik)	goré	gorá	gorá
dative (dajȃlnik)	gôri	goráma	goràm
accusative (tožȋlnik)	goró	goré	goré
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	gôri	goràh	goràh
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	goró	goráma	gorámi

• gọ̑rnji
• gór
• zgóraj

• “gora”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “gora”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• gura

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoɾa/ [ˈɡoː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -oɾa
• Syllabification: go‧ra

Borrowed from Spanish gorra.

gora (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜇ) (dated)

1. cap

   Synonyms: sombrero, sumbalilo, syorpit

2. bonnet

   Synonym: bonete

From blend of English go +‎ tara.

gora (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜇ) (gay slang)

1. act of going (moving to a certain place or person)

   Synonyms: pumunta, magpunta

2. act of proceeding

   Synonym: tuloy

• gowra

• “gora”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018