hopak
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- gopak (from Russian)
Etymology
[edit]1925–30, from Ukrainian гопа́к (hopák), from the interjection гоп (hop).
Compare Ukrainian го́пати (hópaty), го́пкати (hópkaty), гопцюва́ти (hopcjuváty), го́пки (hópky), and dated Ukrainian го́пи (hópy, “dance steps”), го́пка (hópka, “child (jocular)”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hopak (plural hopaks)
- A Ukrainian national dance in 2/4 time.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1213:
- Somewhere an accordion was playing a jazz-inflected hopak.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:hopak.
Translations
[edit]a Ukrainian national dance
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References
[edit]- “hopak” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- “hopak”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “гоп”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]hopak m (plural hopaks)
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