gora
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A white person often from Europe
- noun
- Indian
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gora
- My friend invited a gora to join us for dinner last night.
Examples
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Those goras are going to build a new clinic on someone else's property.
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Many people in the village were curious about the new gora who moved in next door.
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You are a gora a white man.
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You are not British, so stop acting like a gora.
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What is it that the gora Englishman always needs?
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Late Mughals used to come to Mehrauli during summers; then Fraizer and other goras used to come here, and now the wealthy of modern Delhi have their farmhouses here.
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At the festival, the children were excited to see the gora dancing among them.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gora as a noun comes from the same Hindi and Urdu word for 'fair', from the Sanskrit gaura meaning 'white'. So it began to be used to mean a 'white person', often someone from Europe.