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.

• Gopal

From English gallop.

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

1. gallop

galop m (plural galops)

1. gallop (fastest gait of a horse)

• galopar

• “galop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From French galop.

• IPA^(key): /ɡalɔp/, [ɡ̊aˈlʌb̥]

galop c (singular definite galoppen, plural indefinite galopper)

1. gallop

From galoper.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lo/
• Homophone: galops

galop m (plural galops)

1. gallop

• “galop” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

galop m (invariable)

1. galop (originally german folk dance)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.lɔp/

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galop m inan

1. canter (three-beat horse gait)

• cwał

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

gàlop m (Cyrillic spelling га̀лоп)

1. gallop