belly dance

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English - Turkish
göbek dansı
oryantal dans

O bir oryantal dansöz. - She's a belly dancer.

göbek atmak
belly dance music
oyun havası
belly-dance
göbek dansı
English - English
A traditional form of dance from the Middle East, characterized by movements of the abdominal muscles
a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen
seductive Middle-Eastern dance performed by women which is characterized by hip swaying and contracting of the stomach muscles
a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen perform a belly dance
perform a belly dance
belly dances
plural form of belly dance
belly-dance
Attributive form of belly dance, noun

belly-dance expert.

bellydance
{i} seductive Middle-Eastern dance performed by women which is characterized by hip swaying and contracting of the stomach muscles
belly dance

    Hyphenation

    bel·ly dance

    Turkish pronunciation

    beli däns

    Pronunciation

    /ˈbelē ˈdans/ /ˈbɛliː ˈdæns/

    Etymology

    [ 'be-lE ] (noun.) before 12th century. A loan translation 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.'"; and in Untrodden fields of anthropology (1898) in reference to African (Wolof and Landoma (Baga)) dance.
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