belly dance

Etymology
, equivalent to. 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.

Noun

 * 1) A form of dance originating in the Middle East and characterized by movements of the torso.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: maag dans
 * Albanian: kercim i belit
 * Amharic: የሆድ ዳንስ
 * Arabic: رَقْص شَرْقِيّ, رَقْص بَلَدِيّ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: göbək rəqsi
 * Basque: sabel dantza
 * Belarusian: танец жывата
 * Bulgarian: бели денс
 * Catalan: dansa oriental, dansa del ventre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 東方舞
 * Czech: břišní tanec, orientální tanec
 * Danish: mavedans, orientalsk dans
 * Dutch:, oriëntaalse dans
 * Esperanto: ventra danco, orienta danco
 * Estonian: kõhutants
 * Finnish:, itämainen tanssi
 * French: ,
 * Galician: danza do ventre
 * Georgian: მუცლის ცეკვა
 * German:, Orientalischer Tanz
 * Greek: χορός οριεντάλ, χορός της κοιλιάς
 * Hebrew: מחול מזרחי, ריקוד בטן
 * Hindi: बेली डांस
 * Hungarian:, keleti tánc
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: tari perut
 * Interlingua: dansa de ventre
 * Italian:, danza dell'est
 * Japanese: ベリーダンス, オリエンタルダンス
 * Kazakh: іш биі
 * Korean: 벨리댄스, 배꼽춤, 오리엔탈댄스
 * Latvian: vēderdejas
 * Lithuanian: pilvo šokis
 * Macedonian: стомачен танц
 * Malay: tarian gelek
 * Mongolian: бэлхүүсний бүжиг
 * Norwegian: magedans, orientalsk dans
 * Bokmål: magedans, mavedans, orientalsk dans
 * Nynorsk: magedans
 * Persian: رقص عربی
 * Polish:, taniec orientalny
 * Portuguese:, dança oriental
 * Romanian: dans din buric, dans oriental
 * Russian:, восто́чный та́нец, беллидэ́нс,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: трбушни плес, оријентални плес
 * Roman: trbušni ples, orijentalni ples
 * Sinhalese: බඩ නැටුම
 * Slovak: brušný tanec, orientálny tanec
 * Slovene: trebušni ples, orientalski ples
 * Spanish: danza del vientre, danza oriental
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: sayaw sa silangan
 * Tamil: தொப்பை நடனம்
 * Thai: ระบำหน้าท้อง
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: танець живота, Східний танець
 * Urdu: بیلی ڈانس
 * Uzbek: qorin raqsi
 * Cyrillic: қорин рақси
 * Vietnamese: múa bụng
 * Volapük: bälidadanüd
 * Welsh: bolddawns

Verb

 * 1) To perform a belly dance.

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * German: