Sanskrit

Proper noun

गोदावरी • ‎(godāvarī)

1. (literary) ‘granting water or kine’.
2. Name of a river in the Indian peninsula, the Godavari.

References

• Sir Monier Monier-Williams (1898) A Sanskrit-English dictionary etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 365