galop

From French galop; named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade.

galop (plural galops)

1. A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
2. The music for a dance of this kind.

galop (third-person singular simple present galops, present participle galoping or galopping, simple past and past participle galoped or galopped)

1. To dance the galop.

• Gopal

From English gallop.

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galop (present galop, present participle galoppende, past participle galop)

1. gallop

Deverbal from galopar.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡəˈlɔp]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡaˈlɔp]

galop m (plural galops)

1. gallop (fastest gait of a horse)
2. (music) galop (country dance in 2/4 time)

• “galop”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From French galop.

• IPA^(key): /ɡalɔp/, [ɡ̊aˈlʌb̥]

galop c (singular definite galoppen, plural indefinite galopper)

1. gallop
2. galop (dance)

• “galop” in Den Danske Ordbog

From galoper.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lo/
• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ
• Homophones: galops (general), gallo (form 1 only)

galop m (plural galops)

1. gallop

• au grand galop
• chassez le naturel, il revient au galop

• → Danish: galop
• → English: galop
• → Italian: galop

• “galop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French galop.

galop m (invariable)

1. galop (originally German folk dance)

• galop in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from German Galopp, from French galop.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.lɔp/

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• Rhymes: -alɔp
• Syllabification: ga‧lop

galop m inan (diminutive galopek)

1. canter (three-beat horse gait)
2. (colloquial) fast run of a person
3. (colloquial) very rapid pace of changes

galop m inan

1. (historical) galop (lively French country dance of the nineteenth century)
2. (historical, music) galop (music for a dance of this kind)

• galop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• galop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French galop.

galop n (plural galopuri)

1. gallop

• IPA^(key): /ɡǎlop/
• Hyphenation: ga‧lop

gàlop m inan (Cyrillic spelling га̀лоп)

1. gallop

Borrowed from French gallop

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lop/
• Rhymes: -op
• Hyphenation: ga‧lop

galop (definite accusative galopu, plural galoplar)

1. gallop

• “galop”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “galop”, in Nişanyan Sözlük