Belly dance in Hindi
Meaning, Devanagari spelling and pronunciation
The meaning of “belly dance” in Hindi is मध्य पूर्व अशिया का नृत्य, pronounced madhy purv ashiya ka naRaty — it is a noun. Copy the Devanagari word above, hear how it is pronounced, and use it anywhere. To type words like this yourself, try our Hindi typing tool, or explore more words in the vocabulary sets.
a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen
Calque of French danse du ventre, equivalent to belly + dance. First attested in English in 1889, in an article about that year's Exposition Universelle in Paris in the November 22 edition of the Yorkshire Factory Times: "A café in the Rue du Caire attracted 2,000 spectators daily to see the ‘belly dance’, and realised a total of 400,000 francs." Early sources also used the French term danse du ventre as-is.
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