belly dance

belly dance

See also: bellydance and belly-dance

English

Alternative forms

• bellydance, belly-dance

Etymology

Calque of French danse du ventre, equivalent to belly +‎ dance. First attested in English in 1889, in an article about that year's Exposition Universelle in Paris in the November 22 edition of the Yorkshire Factory Times: "A café in the Rue du Caire attracted 2,000 spectators daily to see the ‘belly dance’, and realised a total of 400,000 francs."[1] Early sources also used the French term danse du ventre as-is.[1][2]

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Noun

belly dance (countable and uncountable, plural belly dances)

1. A form of dance originating in the Middle East and characterized by movements of the torso.

Synonyms

• oriental dance

Translations

form of dance

Afrikaans: maag dans Albanian: kercim i belit Amharic: የሆድ ዳንስ (yähod dans) Arabic: رَقْص شَرْقِيّ‎ m (raqṣ šarqiyy) (oriental dance), رَقْص بَلَدِيّ‎ m (raqṣ baladiyy) (national dance) Armenian: պորտապար (hy) (portapar) Azerbaijani: göbək rəqsi Basque: sabel dantza Belarusian: танец жывата (tanjec žyvata) Bulgarian: бели денс (beli dens) Catalan: dansa oriental, dansa del ventre Chinese: Mandarin: 肚皮舞 (zh) (dùpíwǔ), 東方舞／东方舞 (dōngfāngwǔ) Czech: břišní tanec m, orientální tanec m Danish: mavedans, orientalsk dans Dutch: buikdans (nl) m, oriëntaalse dans m Esperanto: ventra danco, orienta danco Estonian: kõhutants Finnish: vatsatanssi (fi), itämainen tanssi French: danse du ventre (fr) f, danse orientale f Galician: danza do ventre Georgian: მუცლის ცეკვა (muclis ceḳva) German: Bauchtanz (de) m, Orientalischer Tanz m Greek: χορός οριεντάλ m (chorós orientál), χορός της κοιλιάς m (chorós tis koiliás) Hebrew: מחול מזרחי‎ (makhól mizrakhí), ריקוד בטן‎ (makhól béten) Hindi: बेली डांस (belī ḍāns) Hungarian: hastánc (hu), keleti tánc Icelandic: magadans (is) m Indonesian: tari perut Interlingua: dansa de ventre Italian: danza del ventre f, danza dell'est f Japanese: ベリーダンス (berīdansu), オリエンタルダンス (orientarudansu) Kazakh: іш биі (ış biı) Korean: 벨리댄스 (bellidaenseu), 오리엔탈댄스 (orientaldaenseu) Latvian: vēderdejas Lithuanian: pilvo šokis Macedonian: стомачен танц m (stomačen tanc) Malay: tarian gelek Mongolian: бэлхүүсний бүжиг (belxüüsnii büžig) Norwegian: magedans, orientalsk dans Bokmål: magedans m, mavedans m, orientalsk dans m Nynorsk: magedans m Persian: رقص عربی‎ (raqs 'arabi) (Arabic dance) Polish: taniec brzucha (pl) m inan, taniec orientalny m inan Portuguese: dança do ventre (pt) f, dança oriental Romanian: dans din buric n, dans oriental n Russian: та́нец живота́ (ru) m (tánec životá), восто́чный та́нец m (vostóčnyj tánec), беллидэ́нс m (bellidɛ́ns), беллида́нс (ru) m (bellidáns) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трбушни плес, оријентални плес Roman: trbušni ples, orijentalni ples Sinhalese: බඩ නැටුම (baḍa næṭuma) Slovak: brušný tanec, orientálny tanec Slovene: trebušni ples, orientalski ples Spanish: danza del vientre f, danza oriental f Swedish: magdans (sv) c, orientalisk dans (sv) Tagalog: sayaw sa silangan Tamil: தொப்பை நடனம் (toppai naṭaṉam) Thai: ระบำหน้าท้อง (rá-bam-nâa-thong) Turkish: göbek dansı (tr), oryantal dans (tr) Ukrainian: танець живота (tanecʹ žyvota), Східний танець (Sxidnyj tanecʹ) Urdu: بیلی ڈانس‎ (baili dance) Uzbek: qorin raqsi Cyrillic: қорин рақси (qorin raqsi) Vietnamese: múa bụng Volapük: bälidadanüd Welsh: bolddawns

Verb

belly dance (third-person singular simple present belly dances, present participle belly dancing, simple past and past participle belly danced)

1. To perform a belly dance.

Derived terms

• belly dancer
• belly dancing

Translations

to perform a belly dance

Dutch: buikdansen (nl) German: bauchtanzen

References

1. Hawthorn, Ainsley (May 2019). "Middle Eastern Dance and What We Call It." Dance Research 37 (1): 1-17.
2. Morrow, W.C. (1899). Bohemian Paris of Today

Further reading

• Hawthorn, Ainsley (May 2019). "Middle Eastern Dance and What We Call It." Dance Research 37 (1): 1-17.
• Hawthorn, Ainsley (May 23, 2019). "Why do we call Middle Eastern dance 'belly dance'?" Edinburgh University Press Blog.
• Morocco (C. Varga Dinicu) (2011). "What's in a Name? More Than You Imagine...." You Asked Aunt Rocky: Answers & Advice About Raqs Sharqi & Raqs Shaabi. Virginia Beach: RDI Publications, 319-350.
• Osweiler, Laura (Amara) (2006). "Naming the Dance." Zaghareet Magazine.
• Shira. "Belly Dance: A Dance By Any Other Name." Shira.net.

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