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- Hindi · derived fromघोड़ू
- English todayghodu
From Hindi घोड़ू (ghoṛū), a combination of घोड़ा (ghoṛā) + -ऊ (-ū), literally meaning "horse-like." (The voiced retroflex flap is colloquially rendered in English as a "d" instead of as an "r" by Hindi transliteration.)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.