[chahr-dahsh] 
| a Hungarian national dance in two movements, one slow and the other fast. |
| czar·das (chär'däsh') n.
[Hungarian csárdás, from csárda, wayside tavern, from Serbo-Croatian čardāk, watchtower, from Turkish çardak, hut, trellis, from Persian chār ṭāq, from chahār ṭāq, four-cornered vault : chahār, four (from Old Iranian cathwārō; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots) + ṭāq, vault (from Arabic, arch; see ṭwq in Semitic roots).] |
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