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Kaliarda

Kaliarda proper noun: a cant used by the homosexual community in Greece, similar to Polari in Britain, in use since the 1940s. It uses a large amount of borrowings from French, Italian and Turkish. Once a secret language to evade the hostile community, it is now widely known thanks to television and thus not used much nowadays.

Proper noun

Kaliarda

  1. A cant used by the homosexual community in Greece, similar to Polari in Britain, in use since the 1940s. It uses a large amount of borrowings from French, Italian and Turkish. Once a secret language to evade the hostile community, it is now widely known thanks to television and thus not used much nowadays.

Origin of Kaliarda

From Greek καλιαρντά (kaliarntá).

Questions about Kaliarda

What does Kaliarda mean?
Kaliarda means a cant used by the homosexual community in Greece, similar to Polari in Britain, in use since the 1940s. It uses a large amount of borrowings from French, Italian and Turkish. Once a secret language to evade the hostile community, it is now widely known thanks to television and thus not used much nowadays.
What part of speech is Kaliarda?
Kaliarda is a proper noun.

Words near Kaliarda in the dictionary

  1. Kali Puja
  2. Kali Yuga
  3. Kalia
  4. kalian
  5. kalians
  6. Kaliarda
  7. Kalias
  8. Kalibo
  9. kaliborite
  10. kaliborites
  11. kalicine

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