folk dance

English

Square dance is a folk dance of the United States.

Noun

folk dance (countable and uncountable, plural folk dances)

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

Derived terms

• folk dancer
• folk dancing

Translations

genre of dance

• Arabic: رَقْص شَعْبِيّ m (raqṣ šaʕbiyy)
• Armenian: ժողովրդական պար (žoġovrdakan par)
• Asturian: baille tradicional f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民間舞蹈／民间舞蹈 (zh) (mínjiān wǔdǎo), 民族舞蹈 (zh) (mínzú wǔdǎo)

• Danish: folkedans c
• Dutch: volksdans (nl)
• 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(民族舞踊) (minjok muyong)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: folkedans m

  Nynorsk: folkedans m

• Polish: taniec ludowy m
• Portuguese: dança tradicional f
• Russian: наро́дный та́нец m (naródnyj tánec)
• Spanish: baile tradicional f, danza tradicional f
• Swedish: folkdans (sv) c