English Explanatory Dictionary

Goiás

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A state of the Center-West Region, Brazil, around the city. Capital: Goiânia.
  2. A city and municipality of the state of Goiás, Brazil, and its former capital.

Word forms

Goiás

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Goiás, from earlier Goyaz of uncertain origin but possibly an Old Tupi endonym.

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