mbalax
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Wolof [Term?], meaning "rhythm".
Noun
mbalax (uncountable)
- (music) A genre of popular dance music chiefly performed in Senegal and The Gambia
- 2008 January 15, Jon Pareles, “To See (and Hear) the World in Five Hours: Unique Sounds Ripe for Import”, in New York Times:
- Another local style — the Senegalese funk called mbalax — arrived with the singer Fallou Dieng, a protégé of the Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour.
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French
Noun
mbalax m (uncountable)
- (music) mbalax (music style)
Further reading
- “mbalax”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.