name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
polka
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɒl.kə/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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General-American: /ˈpoʊ(l)kə/
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rhymes with -ɒlkə
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rhymes with -əʊkə
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CMU ARPABET: P OW1 L K AA0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: P OW1 K AA0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A lively dance originating in Bohemia.
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noun
Meaning 3
The music for this dance.
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noun
Meaning 4
A polka jacket.
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verb
Meaning 5
To dance the polka.
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
Meaning 6
a Bohemian dance with 3 steps and a hop in fast time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: folk dancing, folk dance
noun
Meaning 7
music performed for dancing the polka
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Broader terms: dance music
verb
Meaning 8
dance a polka
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Broader terms: dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Czech, Slovak and Polish Polka.
Via French and German from Czech polka, variant of půlka (“half”) as in "half-step"; see půl (“half”).
Across languages
Translations
43 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بُولْكَا (būlkā) — dance
- Armenian: պոլկա (polka) — dance
- Asturian: polca — dance
- Bulgarian: по́лка (pólka) — dance
- Catalan: polca — dance
- Chinese Mandarin: 波爾卡 /波尔卡 (bō'ěrkǎ) — dance
- Czech: polka — dance
- Danish: polka — dance
- Dutch: polka — dance
- Finnish: polkka — dance
- French: polka — dance
- Galician: polca — dance
- German: Polka — dance
- Italian: polka — dance
- Japanese: ポルカ (poruka) — dance
- Korean: 폴카 (polka) — dance
- Lithuanian: polka — dance
- Marathi: पोल्का (polkā) — dance
- Norwegian Bokmål: polka — dance
- Norwegian Nynorsk: polka — dance
- Polish: polka — dance
- Portuguese: polca — dance
- Romanian: polcă — dance
- Russian: по́лька (pólʹka) — dance
- Spanish: polca — dance
- Swedish: polka — dance
- Swedish: polkett — dance
- Tagalog: polka — dance
- Armenian: պոլկա (polka) — music for this dance
- Asturian: polca — music for this dance
- Chinese Mandarin: 波爾卡音樂 /波尔卡音乐 (bō'ěrkǎ yīnyuè) — music for this dance
- Finnish: polkka — music for this dance
- Galician: polca — music for this dance
- Lithuanian: polka — music for this dance
- Marathi: पोल्का (polkā) — music for this dance
- Norwegian Bokmål: polka — music for this dance
- Norwegian Nynorsk: polka — music for this dance
- Polish: polka — music for this dance
- Portuguese: polca — music for this dance
- Romanian: polcă — music for this dance
- Spanish: polca — music for this dance
- Swedish: polka — music for this dance
- Swedish: polkett — music for this dance
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