"niiko" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Borrowed from Somali niiko",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Somali niiko.",
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    "nii‧ko"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Dances",
          "orig": "en:Dances",
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          "ref": "2015 August 24, Sadia Ahmed, Fatuma Abdulahi, “An insider’s guide to Mogadishu: ‘There’s no life without peace’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-10-14:",
          "text": "After decades of war Mogadishu is tentatively relaxing. From sourdough pancakes to traditional bum-shaking Niiko dance and political hip-hop,[…]Xamar has a local dance called Niiko, which is the rhythmic shaking of the bum synchronized with drums.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 August 27, Giulia Liberatore, Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain, Routledge, →ISBN, page 71:",
          "text": "Niiko dancing was one of several dimensions of Somali culture that she had actively embraced and enjoyed celebrating and displaying to others.[…]Niiko was a part of her Somali culture and whether it conflicted or not with religion was not a concern for her at that point in time. Interestingly, Niiko is a dance that the majority of first-generation Somalis associate with the minority Bantu,[…]",
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        "A folk dance from southern Somalia similar to twerking which is generally performed by women."
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          "twerking",
          "twerking"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈniːkəʊ/",
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        "UK"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnikoʊ/",
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        "US"
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːkəʊ"
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  "word": "niiko"
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          "ref": "2015 August 24, Sadia Ahmed, Fatuma Abdulahi, “An insider’s guide to Mogadishu: ‘There’s no life without peace’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-10-14:",
          "text": "After decades of war Mogadishu is tentatively relaxing. From sourdough pancakes to traditional bum-shaking Niiko dance and political hip-hop,[…]Xamar has a local dance called Niiko, which is the rhythmic shaking of the bum synchronized with drums.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈnikoʊ/",
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