different between gopak vs hopak

English

Noun

gopak (plural gopaks)

1. Alternative form of hopak

French

Noun

gopak m (plural gopaks)

1. hopak

English

Alternative forms

• gopak

Etymology

1925–30, from Ukrainian ?????? (hopák), from the interjection ??? (hop).

Compare Ukrainian ??????? (hópaty), ???????? (hópkaty), ?????????? (hopcjuváty), ?????? (hópky), and dated Ukrainian ????? (hópy, “dance steps”), ?????? (hópka, “child (jocular)”).

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?ho?pæk/
• IPA^(key): /?h??pæk/

Noun

hopak (plural hopaks)

1. A Ukrainian national dance in 2/4 time.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 1213:

     Somewhere an accordion was playing a jazz-inflected hopak.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:hopak.

References

• “hopak” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• “hopak” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Mel?ny?uk O. S., editor (1982–2012) , “???”, in Etymolohi?nyj slovnyk ukrajins?koji movy [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyjiv: Naukova Dumka

Anagrams

• phako-