Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kaliarda

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kaliar-da
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

Etymology

From Greek καλιαρντά (kaliarntá).

Origin

Source language: Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: καλιαρντά

Questions

What does kaliarda mean?: 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.
Where does kaliarda come from?: It is traced to Greek.

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