hopak

/ˈhəʊpæk/

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Canada/ˈhoːpæk/

hopak noun: a Ukrainian national dance in 2/4 time.

Noun

hopak (plural hopaks)

A Ukrainian national dance in 2/4 time.
- Somewhere an accordion was playing a jazz-inflected hopak.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1213
- Another explicitly 'joyful' item in my collection is the 1963 Services and Fares brochure, featuring train and ferry timetables to London (and back) from Czechoslovakia, Poland and the USSR, with a happy hopak-dancing Ukrainian cossack in a traditional Ukrainian vishivanka shirt and wide sharovari...2026 May 27, Vitali Vitaliev, “Times of hope and joy”, in RAIL, number 1062, page 68

hopak meaning in Malayalam and Persian

hopak in Malayalam

a Ukrainian national dance: ഹോപക് hōpakŭ

Forms of hopak

plural	hopaks
alternative form	gopak

Origin of hopak

1925–30, from Ukrainian гопа́к (hopák), from the interjection гоп (hop). Compare Ukrainian го́пати (hópaty), го́пкати (hópkaty), гопцюва́ти (hopcjuváty), го́пки (hópky), and dated Ukrainian го́пи (hópy, “dance steps”), го́пка (hópka, “child (jocular)”).

Questions about hopak

What does hopak mean?: Hopak means a Ukrainian national dance in 2/4 time.
What is hopak in Malayalam?: Hopak in Malayalam is ഹോപക് (hōpakŭ). See Hopak meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is hopak?: Hopak is a noun.
How do you pronounce hopak?: Hopak is pronounced /ˈhoːpæk/ (Canada).
What is the plural of hopak?: The plural of hopak is hopaks.

Words near hopak in the dictionary

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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