hopak
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
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Noun edit
hopak m (plural hopaks)