bellydanceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• bellydance, belly-dance

語源

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."^[1] Early sources also used the French term danse du ventre as-is.^[1][2]

発音

名詞

belly dance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 belly dances)

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

同意語

• oriental dance

動詞

belly dance (三人称単数 現在形 belly dances, 現在分詞 belly dancing, 過去形および過去分詞形 belly danced)

1. To perform a belly dance.

派生語

• belly dancer
• belly dancing

参照

Further reading

• Hawthorn, Ainsley (May 2019). "Middle Eastern Dance and What We Call It." Dance Research 37 (1): 1-17.
• Hawthorn, Ainsley (May 23, 2019). "Why do we call Middle Eastern dance 'belly dance'?" Edinburgh University Press Blog.
• Morocco (C. Varga Dinicu) (2011). "What's in a Name? More Than You Imagine...." You Asked Aunt Rocky: Answers & Advice About Raqs Sharqi & Raqs Shaabi. Virginia Beach: RDI Publications, 319-350.
• Osweiler, Laura (Amara) (2006). "Naming the Dance." Zaghareet Magazine.
• Shira. "Belly Dance: A Dance By Any Other Name." Shira.net.

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