csardas

See also: csárdás

English

Alternative forms

• csárdás, czardas

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres

Proto-Iranian *čaθwā́rah

Middle Persian /čahār/

Classical Persian چار (čâr)

Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der.

Middle Iranianbor.

Arabic طَاق (ṭāq)bor.

Classical Persian طاق (tâġ)

Classical Persian چَارْطَاق (čārtāq)bor.

Ottoman Turkish چارطاق (çardak)bor.

Hungarian csárda

Proto-Uralic *-ć?

Hungarian -s

Hungarian csárdásbor.

English csardas

From Hungarian csárdás, adjectival form of csárda (“tavern”), from Ottoman Turkish چارطاق (çardak, “arbour, summerhouse”), from Classical Persian چارتاق (čârtâq, “four-arch”), from چار (čâr, “four”) +‎ طاق (tâq, “arch”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑːdæʃ/, /ˈzɑːdəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹdɑʃ/

Noun

csardas (plural csardases)

1. An intricate Hungarian folk dance characterized by variations in tempo. The two main parts are called lassú (slow) and friss (quick).
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 229:

     `When you danced the czardas with Admiral Horthy?'

2. The music and melody for such a dance.

Translations

Hungarian folk dance

• Armenian: չարդաշ (hy) (čʻardaš)
• Azerbaijani: çardaş
• Belarusian: ча́рда́ш m (čárdáš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 查達斯 / 查达斯 (chádásī), 恰爾達什 / 恰尔达什 (qià'ěrdáshén), 夏德西 (xiàdéxī)

• Czech: čardáš (cs) m
• Emilian: csárdás f, cśèrda f
• Esperanto: ĉardaŝo
• Estonian: tšaardaš
• Finnish: csárdás
• French: czardas (fr) f, csardas (fr) f
• German: Csárdás (de) m, Csardas (de) m, Tschardasch m
• Greek: τσάρντας n (tsárntas)
• Hebrew: צ׳רדש
• Hungarian: csárdás (hu)
• Italian: ciarda (it) f, czarda f
• Japanese: チャールダーシュ (chārudāshu), チャルダッシュ (charudasshu)
• Korean: 차르다시 (chareudasi)
• Lithuanian: čardašas m
• Persian: چارداش (čârdâš)
• Polish: czardasz (pl) m anim
• Romanian: ceardaș (ro) n
• Russian: ча́рдаш (ru) m (čárdaš)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ча̏рда̄ш m

  Latin: čȁrdāš (sh) m

• Slovene: čardaš m
• Southern Altai: кӱӱлик пьеса (küülik pʹyesa)
• Swedish: csardas (sv) c, csárdás (sv) c, czardas c
• Turkish: çardaş (tr)
• Ukrainian: ча́рдаш m (čárdaš)
• Yiddish: טשאַרדאַש m (tshardash)