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Definition of belly dance in English Turkish dictionary
- göbek dansı
- oryantal dans
O bir oryantal dansöz.
-She's a belly dancer.
- göbek atmak
- belly dance music
- oyun havası
- belly-dance
- göbek dansı
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Definition of belly dance in English English dictionary
- 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
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belly dance
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bel·ly danceTurkish pronunciation
beli dänsPronunciation
/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.Resimler
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