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Gaya

Gaya proper noun: a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.

Proper noun (1)

Gaya

  1. (historical) A Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.
  2. The presumed language of the Gaya confederacy.

Proper noun (2)

Gaya

  1. A city and district of Bihar, India.

Gaya meaning in Urdu

Gaya in Urdu

Gaya
گیا gayā

Forms of Gaya

alternative formKaya

Origin of Gaya

Borrowed from Korean 가야 (gaya).

Borrowed from Hindi गया (gayā), from Sanskrit गया (gayā).

Words formed from Gaya

Questions about Gaya

What does Gaya mean?
Gaya means a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.
What is Gaya in Urdu?
Gaya in Urdu is گیا (gayā). See Gaya meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is Gaya?
Gaya is a proper noun.

Words near Gaya in the dictionary

  1. gay-shames
  2. gay-shaming
  3. gay-straight alliance
  4. gay-straight alliances
  5. gay-vague
  6. Gaya
  7. gayageum
  8. gayageums
  9. Gayakapriya
  10. gayal
  11. gayals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Gaya (page history and authors); گیا (Urdu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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