circus

Etymology
, from,. . Displaced native.

Noun

 * 1) A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
 * 2) A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.
 * 3)  A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.
 * 4)  In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
 * 5)  Circuit; space; enclosure.
 * 1)  In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
 * 2)  Circuit; space; enclosure.
 * 1)  Circuit; space; enclosure.
 * 1)  Circuit; space; enclosure.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: sirkus
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሲርኩስ
 * Arabic: سِيرْك
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: circu
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: zirku
 * Belarusian: цырк
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: цирк
 * Burmese:
 * Carpathian Rusyn: ці́ркус
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: cirko
 * Estonian: tsirkus
 * Faroese: sirkus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ცირკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: tsirkka
 * Irish: sorcas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 曲馬団
 * Kazakh: цирк
 * Khmer: សៀក
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ລະຄອນສັດ,
 * Latin: circēnsēs
 * Latvian: cirks
 * Lithuanian: cirkas
 * Macedonian: циркус
 * Malay:
 * Maori: tākihi
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠼᠢᠷᠻ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sirkus
 * Nynorsk: sirkus
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: hringsetl
 * Pashto: سېرک,
 * Persian:, سَرْکَس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian: circu, tzircu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: цѝркус
 * Roman:
 * Sinhalese: සර්කස්
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: сирк
 * Tamil: வட்டரங்கு
 * Telugu: సర్కస్
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: sirk, aýman
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: سَرْکَس
 * Uyghur: سېرك
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, xiệc
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: צירק


 * Bulgarian: кръ́гъл площа́д
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Malay:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: кру́глая пло́щадь

Verb

 * 1) To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  company of performers; place where this company performs

Etymology
Likely, , from.

Noun

 * 1) a circular line or orbit; circle, ring
 * 2) a racecourse or space where games are held, especially one that is round
 * 3) the spectators in a circus; a circus

Descendants

 * Balkan Romance:
 * Italo-Romance:
 * Padanian:
 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Ancient borrowings:
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 * Gallo-Romance:
 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
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 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
 * Ancient borrowings:
 * Insular Romance:
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