cancan

== English == === Alternative forms === can-can === Etymology === Borrowed from French cancan. === Pronunciation === enPR: kăn′kăn′ (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkænˌkæn/ (Received Pronunciation, Scotland, India) IPA(key): /ˈkanˌkan/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɛnˌkɛn/ Rhymes: -ænkæn, -ankan Hyphenation: can‧can === Noun === cancan (plural cancans) (dance) A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France. (music, by extension) "Galop Infernal", a movement from Jacques Offenbach's opera Orpheus in the Underworld, commonly associated with and called the cancan. (motocross) A trick where one leg is brought over the seat, so that both legs are on one side. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === cancan (third-person singular simple present cancans, present participle cancanning, simple past and past participle cancanned) To dance the cancan. == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from French cancan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɑnˈkɑn/, (after French) [kɑ̃ˈkɑ̃] Rhymes: -ɑn Hyphenation: can‧can === Noun === cancan m (plural cancans, no diminutive) (dance) cancan (dance) == Finnish == === Etymology === Borrowed from French cancan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkɑŋkɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋkɑ̝n] IPA(key): /ˈkɑnˌkɑn/, [ˈkɑ̝ŋˌkɑ̝n] IPA(key): /ˈkænˌkæn/, [ˈk̟æŋˌk̟æn] Rhymes: -ɑŋkɑn Syllabification(key): can‧can Hyphenation(key): can‧can === Noun === cancan (dance) cancan (dance) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “cancan”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023 == French == === Etymology === Supposedly, this word originates with a dispute at the Collège de France circa 1550, over whether to use a traditional French pronunciation of Latin or a reconstructed pronunciation of Latin. One of the points of most dispute was the pronunciation of qu, with the word quamquam exemplifying this: it was pronounced in reconstructed Latin as [ˈkʷam.kʷã(m)] but pronounced in French Latin as /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance". === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ Hyphenation: can‧can === Noun === cancan m (plural cancans) gossip (idle talk) (dance) cancan (dance) ==== Synonyms ==== commérage qu'en-dira-t-on ragot ==== Derived terms ==== cancaner cancaneuse === References === === Further reading === “cancan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: can‧can === Noun === cancan m (invariable) alternative form of cancã == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French cancan. === Noun === cancan n (plural cancanuri) gossip (idle talk) (dance) cancan (dance) ==== Declension ==== == Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from French cancan. === Noun === cancan c (dance) cancan (dance) ==== Declension ====