Belly Dance

Definitions: Belly Dance

Belly Dance

Noun

1. A Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen.

Verb

1. Perform a belly dance.

Synonyms: Belly Dance

Synonyms: belly dancing (n), danse du ventre (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Belly dance

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Belly dance is a name for one variation on raqs, a style of dance developed in the Middle East and other Arabic-influenced areas. Known in it's native tongue as raqs shaquri (translation is "Oriental Dance", or, really, "Dance of the East"), the phrase "belly dance" is utilized now as the best-known name in the West for this form. The creation of the term is generally credited to Sol Bloom, the promoter of the World's Fair that saw the first raqs dancers in America.

See also: dance, raqs, raqs shaquri

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Belly dance."

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Crosswords: Belly Dance

English words defined with "belly dance": zill. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Belly Dance

Domain	Title
Books	Advanced Belly Dance (reference) Belly Dance (reference) Belly Dance Costume Making (reference) Learn to Belly Dance (reference) Oriental Belly Dance (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Belly Dance Your Way To Fitness (reference) Belly Dance - Instructional Fitness Workout Within Traditional Movement (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Belly Dance! The Best of George Abdo and His Flames of Araby Orchestra (reference) Belly Dance Fantasy (reference) Belly Dance Fever (reference) Exotic Excitement of Enticing Belly Dance Music (reference) Belly Dance in Luxor (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Belly Dance

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
belly dance	1,506	belly dance harem pants	9
belly dance costume	472	belly dance veil	8
belly dance video	67	belly dance instructional video	7
belly dance music	65	belly dance scarf	7
belly dance video clip	57	belly dance neena veena	6
belly dance restaurant	53	belly dance dina	5
belly dance supply	42	belly dance danza del vientre	4
tribal belly dance	31	belly dance choreography	4
belly dance superstars	28	belly dance shira	3
belly dance class	24	belly dance dance odalisque	3
belly dance hip scarf	17	abdo belly dance fifi	2
belly dance outfit	14	belly dance neena veena video	2
belly dance skirt	11	belly dance music turkish	2
turkish belly dance	9	belly dance naked	2
		oriental belly dance	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Belly Dance

Language		Translations for "belly dance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		кьочек. (various references)

French		danse du ventre. (various references)

German		bauchtanz (hootchy-kootchy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ベ�"ー箪笥 (baby doll, balcony, belly roll, Beloruss, beryllium, small-sized wardrobe, verandah, verification card, verifier, verify, volume). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ベリーダンス . (various references)

Pig Latin		ellybay anceday

Swedish		magdans. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Belly Dance

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-l-l-n-y"
	-2 letters: leadenly, lendable.
	-3 letters: belaced, belayed, blandly, cadelle, cleaned, cleanly, debacle, dyeable, enabled, enlaced, eyeball, labeled, nacelle.
	-4 letters: adenyl, aneled, baldly, baleen, balled, beadle, beaned, bedell, belady, belled, benday, blende, cabled, called, candle, cellae, celled, clayed, decane, dyable, enable, enlace, lanced, lanely, leaden, leaned, leanly, yeaned, yelled.
	-5 letters: abele, acned, allee, alley, anele, badly, baldy.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-l-l-n-y"
	+5 letters: hendecasyllabic, hendecasyllable.
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