belly dance

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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." Early sources also used the French term danse du ventre as-is.

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

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