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folk_dance

folk dance

English

Square dance is a folk dance of the United States.

Noun

folk dance ‎(plural folk dances)

Any dance traditionally performed by the common people of a specific region.

Derived terms

Translations

dance performed by the common people of a specific region

Arabic: رَقْص شَعْبِيّ m ‎(raqṣ šaʿbiyy)
Armenian: ժողովրդական պար ‎(žołovrdakan par)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 民間舞蹈 (zh), 民间舞蹈 (zh) ‎(mínjiān wǔdǎo), 民族舞蹈 (zh) ‎(mínzú wǔdǎo)
Dutch: volksdans
Finnish: kansantanssi (fi)
French: danse traditionnelle f
German: Volkstanz (de) m
Hebrew: ריקוד עם
Hindi: लोक नृत्य m ‎(lok nŕtya)

Hungarian: néptánc (hu), népi tánc
Japanese: フォークダンス ‎(fōkudansu), 民族舞踊 ‎(みんぞくぶよう, minzoku buyō)
Korean: 민족 무용 ‎(minjok muyong) (民族舞踊)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: folkedans m

Nynorsk: folkedans m
Polish: taniec ludowy m
Portuguese: dança tradicional f
Russian: наро́дный та́нец m ‎(naródnyj tánec)
Swedish: folkdans (sv)