dancer

English

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Alternative forms

• dauncer (obsolete)
• dawncer (obsolete)

Etymology

to dance + -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈdɑːns.ə(ɹ)/, /ˈdæns.ə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"d{ns.@(r)/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnsə(ɹ), -ænse(ɹ)

Noun

dancer (plural dancers)

1. A person who dances, performs (a) dance(s).
2. (euphemistic) A stripper.

Derived terms

• ballet dancer
• gogo-dancer
• pole-dancer

Synonyms

• (euphemism for stripper): exotic dancer

Related terms

• dancing

Translations

person who dances

• Afrikaans: danser (af)
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: راقص (ar) (rāqiṣ) m, راقصة (ar) (rāqiṣa) f
• Armenian: (male) պարող (hy) (paroġ), (female) պարուհի (hy) (paruhi)
• Asturian: baillador (ast) m, baillarín (ast) m
• Azeri: rəqqas (az)
• Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: танцор (be) (tancór) m, танцорка (be) (tancórka) f
• Bengali: নর্তকী (bn) (nôrtôki)
• Bulgarian: танцьор (bg) (tancʹór) m, балетист (bg) (baletíst) m
• Burmese: ကချေသည် (my) (ka.gjei dhe)
• Catalan: ballador (ca) m, ballarí (ca) m (professional)
• Chechen: хелхархо
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞蹈家 (cmn) (wǔdǎojiā), 舞蹈演員 (cmn), 舞蹈演员 (cmn) (wǔdǎo yǎnyuán), 跳舞者 (cmn) (tiàowǔ-zhě)

  Min Nan: 舞蹈家 (nan) (bú-tō-ka)

• Czech: tanečník (cs) m, tanečnice (cs) f
• Danish: danser (da) c, danserinde (da) c
• Dutch: danser (nl) m
• Esperanto: dancisto (eo), (female) dancistino (eo)
• Estonian: tantsija (et)
• Faroese: dansari (fo) m
• Finnish: tanssija (fi), tanssijatar (fi)
• French: danseur (fr) m, danseuse (fr) f
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: bailador (gl) m, bailarín (gl) m, danzarín (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Tänzer (de) m, Tänzerin (de) f
• Greek: χορευτής (el) (chorevtís) m, χορεύτρια (el) (chorévtria) f
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: רקדן (he) (raqdan) m
• Hindi: नृत्यनर्तक (hi) (nŕtyanartak) m (male), नर्तकी (hi) (nartakī) f (female)
• Hungarian: táncos (hu) m, táncosnő (hu) f
• Icelandic: dansari (is) m
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: penari (id)
• Irish: rinceoir (ga) m, damhsóir (ga) m
• Italian: ballerino (it) m, ballerina (it) f, danzatore (it) m, danzatrice (it) f
• Japanese: ダンサー (ja) (dansā), 踊り子 (ja) (おどりこ, odoriko) (female dancer), 舞踊家 (ja) (ぶようか, buyōka)
• Kannada: ಪಾಣ (kn) (pāṇa)
• Kazakh: биші (kk) (bïşi)
• Khmer: អ្នករាំ (km) (neak roam)

• Korean: 춤꾼 (ko) (chumkkun)
• Kyrgyz: бийчи киши (ky) (biyçi kişi) (male), бийчи (ky) (biyçi)
• Lao: ນັກເຕັ້ນລຳ (lo) (nāk tȇn lám), ນັກຟ້ອນ (lo) (nāk fɔ̂ːn) (female)
• Latin: saltator (la) m, saltatrix (la) f, histrio (la) m, ludius (la) m, ludia (la) f
• Latvian: dejotājs (lv) m, dejotāja (lv) f
• Lithuanian: šokėjas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Dänzer (lb) m, Dänzerin (lb) f
• Macedonian: танчер (mk) (tánčer) m, танчерка (mk) (tánčerka) f
• Malay: penari (ms)
• Malayalam: തുളളിച്ചാടുന്നവൻ (ml)
• Mongolian: бүжигчин (mn) (büžigčin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: danser (nb) m

  Nynorsk: dansar (nn) m

• Occitan: dançaire (oc) m
• Oriya: ନର୍ତ୍ତକ (or) (narttaka)
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: رقاص (fa) (raqqâs)
• Polish: tancerz (pl) m, tancerka (pl) f
• Portuguese: bailarino (pt) m, bailarina (pt) f, dançarino (pt) m, dançarina (pt) f
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: dansator (ro) m, dansatoare (ro) f
• Russian: танцор (ru) (tancór) m, танцорка (ru) (tancórka) f, танцовщик (ru) (tancóvščik) m, танцовщица (ru) (tancóvščica) f; балерун (ru) (balerún) m, балерина (ru) (balerína) f (ballet dancer); плясун (ru) (pljasún) m, плясунья (ru) (pljasúnʹja) f
• Scottish Gaelic: dannsair (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: plèsāč (sh) m, plesàčica (sh) f
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: tanečník (sk) m, tanečnica (sk) f
• Slovene: plesalec (sl) m, plesalka (sl) f
• Spanish: bailarín (es) m, bailarina (es) f, bailador (es) m
• Swedish: dansare (sv) c, dansös (sv) c
• Tajik: раққос (tg) (raqqos)
• Tamil: நடனக்காரர் (ta) (naṭaṉakkārar)
• Taos: tò’óna
• Tatar: биюче (tt) (biüçe)
• Telugu: నర్తకి (te) (nartaki)
• Thai: หางเครื่อง (th) (hăang krêuang)
• Turkish: dansçı (tr)
• Turkmen: tansçy (tk)
• Ukrainian: танцюрист (uk) (tancjurýst) m, танцюристка (uk) (tancjurýstka) f
• Uzbek: tansachi (uz), raqqos (uz)
• Vietnamese: người nhảy (vi), người múa (vi), người khiêu vũ (vi), vũ công (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) danüdan (vo), (♂) hidanüdan (vo), (♀) jidanüdan (vo)
• Yiddish: טענצער (yi) (tentser) m

euphemism for stripper

• Bulgarian: танцьорка (bg) (tancjorka) f
• Dutch: exotisch danser m, karakterdanser m, stripdanser m
• Finnish: tanssija (fi), tanssijatar (fi)

• German: Tänzerin (de) f, Tänzer (de) m
• Greek: χορεύτρια (el) (choréftria) f

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• Estonian: tantsija
• Guaraní: jerokyha
• Hebrew: רקדן (raqdan) m, רקדנית (raqdanyt) f
• Interlingua: dansator m, dansatrice f; ballerino m, ballerina f (= ballet dancer)

• Kurdish: danser m / f, semavan m / f, reqas m / f, dansoz f
• Portuguese: dançarino m, dançarina f; bailarino m, bailarina f (= ballet dancer)
• Romanian: dansator m, dansatoare f
• Tupinambá: poraseitara
• Slovene: plesalec m, plesalka f

Anagrams

• cedarn
• craned
• narced

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French, from Frankish *dansōn.

Verb

dancer

1. to dance

Conjugation

   Conjugation of dancer

		simple			compound
infinitive		dancer			avoir dancé
gerund		en dançant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		dançant
past participle		dancé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (may be j' before a vowel)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils, elles
simple tenses	present	dance	dances	dance	dançons	dancez	dancent
	imperfect	dançois, dançoys	dançois, dançoys	dançoit, dançoyt	dancions, dançons	danciez, dancyez	dançoient, dançoyent
	past historic	dança	danças	dança	dançasmes	dançastes	dancerent
	future	dancerai, danceray	danceras	dancera	dancerons	dancerez	danceront
	conditional	dancerois, danceroys	dancerois, danceroys	danceroit, danceroyt	dancerions, danceryons	danceriez, danceryez	danceroient, danceroyent
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je	que tu	qu'il	que nous	que vous	qu'ils, qu'elles
simple tenses	present	dance	dances	dance	dançons	dancez	dancent
	imperfect	dançasse	dançasses	dançast	dançassions	dançassiez	dançassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	dance	—	dançons	dancez	—

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *dansōn (compare Old High German danson)

Verb

dancer

1. to dance
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Puceles carolent et dancent

     Young maidens, singing and dancing

Conjugation

• This verb is part of an group of -er verbs, for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

   Conjugation of dancer (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		dancer			avoir dancé, dancez
gerund		en dançant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		dançant
past participle		dancé, dancez
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jeo, jou	tu	il	nos, nous	vos, vous	ils
simple tenses	present	dance	dances	dance	dançons	dancez, dancés	dancent
	imperfect	dançoe, danceie, dançoie	dançoes, danceies, dançoies	dançot, danceit, dançoit	dancions, danciions	danciez, danciiez	dançoent, danient, dançoient
	past historic	dança	danças	dança	dançames	dançastes	dancerent
	future	dancerai	danceras	dancera	dancerons	dancerez, dancereiz	danceront
	conditional	danceroe, dancereie, danceroie	danceroes, dancereied, danceroied	dancerot, dancereie, danceroie	dancerions, danceriions	danceriez, danceriiez	danceroent, dancereient, danceroient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que jeo, jou	que tu	qu’il	que nos, nous	que vos, vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	dance	dances	dance	dançons	dancez	dancent
	imperfect	dançasse	dançasses	dançast	dancissons	dancissez, dancissiez	dançassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos, nous	vos, vous	–
		—	dance	—	dançons	dancez	—

Related terms

• dance

Descendants

• German: tanzen
• Spanish: danzar