belly dance

See also: belly-dance

English

Etymology

Calque of French danse du ventre. First attested in English in the 1890s.

OED has as earliest attestation an explicit gloss of 1899, "The danse du ventre (literally, "belly-dance") is of Turkish origin" (in Bohemian Paris of to-day), but there are slightly earlier occurrences, in In the land of the lion and sun; or, Modern Persia (1891) of Persian dance; in Frank Leslie's popular monthly (vol. 36, 1893) "These women dance, not with their feet and arms but with their stomach. Hence their abdominal contortions are styled the 'belly dance'."[1]; and in Untrodden fields of anthropology (1898)[2] in reference to African (Wolof and Landoma (Baga)) dance.

Noun

belly dance (countable and uncountable, plural belly dances)

A traditional form of dance from the Middle East, characterized by movements of the abdominal muscles.

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Translations

form of dance

Arabic: رَقْص شَرْقِيّ‎ m (raqṣ šarqiyy) (oriental dance), رَقْص بَلَدِيّ‎ m (raqṣ baladiyy) (national dance)
Armenian: պորտապար (hy) (portapar)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 肚皮舞 (zh) (dùpíwǔ)
Czech: břišní tanec m
Danish: mavedans
Dutch: buikdans (nl)
Esperanto: ventra danco
Finnish: vatsatanssi (fi)
French: danse du ventre (fr) f
German: Bauchtanz (de) m, orientalischer Tanz m
Greek: χορός οριεντάλ m (chorós orientál)
Hebrew: מחול מזרחי‎
Hungarian: hastánc (hu)
Indonesian: tari perut
Interlingua: dansa de ventre

Italian: danza del ventre f
Japanese: ベリーダンス (berīdansu)
Macedonian: стомачен танц m (stomačen tanc)
Malay: tarian perut
Norwegian:
Bokmål: magedans m, mavedans m

Nynorsk: magedans m
Persian: رقص عربی‎ (raqs 'arabi) (Arabic dance)
Polish: taniec brzucha (pl) m inan
Portuguese: dança do ventre (pt) f
Russian: та́нец живота́ (ru) m (tánec životá), беллидэ́нс m (bellidɛ́ns), беллида́нс (ru) m (bellidáns)
Spanish: danza del vientre f
Swedish: magdans c
Turkish: göbek dansı (tr), oryantal (tr)
Volapük: bälidadanüd

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