hopak

English

Alternative forms

gopak (from Russian)

Etymology

1925–30, from Ukrainian гопа́к (hopák), from the interjection гоп (hop).

Compare Ukrainian го́пати (hópaty), го́пкати (hópkaty), гопцюва́ти (hopcjuváty), го́пки (hópky), and dated Ukrainian го́пи (hópy, “dance steps”), го́пка (hópka, “child (jocular)”).

Pronunciation

(Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhoːpæk/
IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊpæk/

Noun

hopak (plural hopaks)

A Ukrainian national dance in 2/4 time.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1213:
  Somewhere an accordion was playing a jazz-inflected hopak.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hopak.

Translations

a Ukrainian national dance

Armenian: հոպակ (hy) (hopak)
Belarusian: гапа́к m (hapák)
Czech: hopak m
Georgian: გოპაკი (goṗaḳi), ჰოპაკი (hoṗaḳi)
Polish: hopak m
Russian: гопа́к (ru) m (gopák)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: хо̀пак m
Roman: hòpak (sh) m
Ukrainian: гопа́к (uk) m (hopák)

References

“hopak” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
“hopak”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “гоп”, in Етимологічний словник української мови: у 7 т. [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 7 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

Anagrams

phako-

French

Noun

hopak m (plural hopaks)

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