cirque

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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɜːk/
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• General-American: /sɝk/
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)k
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• homophone: circ
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Borrowed from French cirque (“circular arena; cirque”), from Latin circus (“circle, ring”), from Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos, “circle, ring; racecourse, circus”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend; to turn”). Doublet of circus.

47 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aragonese: cul — curved depression in a mountainside
• Armenian: կար (kar) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Azerbaijani: kar — curved depression in a mountainside
• Basque: zirku — curved depression in a mountainside
• Bulgarian: циркус (cirkus) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Catalan: circ — curved depression in a mountainside
• Chinese Mandarin: 冰斗 (bīngdǒu) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Czech: kar — curved depression in a mountainside
• Dutch: keteldal — curved depression in a mountainside
• Esperanto: cirko — curved depression in a mountainside
• Estonian: tsirkusorg — curved depression in a mountainside
• Finnish: onsilo — curved depression in a mountainside
• French: cirque — curved depression in a mountainside
• Galician: circo — curved depression in a mountainside
• Georgian: კარი (ḳari) — curved depression in a mountainside
• German: Kar — curved depression in a mountainside
• Greek: λεκανοπέδιο (lekanopédio) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Hebrew: קרקס קרחוני — curved depression in a mountainside
• Hindi: हिमगह्वर (himgahvar) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Hungarian: cirkuszvölgy — curved depression in a mountainside
• Irish: coire — curved depression in a mountainside
• Japanese: 圏谷 (kāru) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Kazakh: қар (qar) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Korean: 카르 (kareu) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Lithuanian: kara — curved depression in a mountainside
• Marathi: हिमगव्हर (himgavhar) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Norwegian Bokmål: botn — curved depression in a mountainside
• Norwegian Nynorsk: botn — curved depression in a mountainside
• Occitan: circ — curved depression in a mountainside
• Persian: سیرک یخچالی — curved depression in a mountainside
• Polish: cyrk lodowcowy — curved depression in a mountainside
• Polish: kar — curved depression in a mountainside
• Polish: kocioł — curved depression in a mountainside
• Portuguese: circo — curved depression in a mountainside
• Russian: цирк (cirk) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Russian: кар (kar) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Scottish Gaelic: coire — curved depression in a mountainside
• Serbo-Croatian: cirk — curved depression in a mountainside
• Serbo-Croatian: цирк — curved depression in a mountainside
• Slovak: kar — curved depression in a mountainside
• Slovene: krnica — curved depression in a mountainside
• Tamil: பனிபறிபள்ளம் (paṉipaṟipaḷḷam) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Turkish: sirk — curved depression in a mountainside
• Turkish: buz yalağı — curved depression in a mountainside
• Ukrainian: цирк (cyrk) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Ukrainian: кар (kar) — curved depression in a mountainside
• Welsh: peiran — curved depression in a mountainside