English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Wolof [Term?], meaning "rhythm".

Noun

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mbalax (uncountable)

  1. (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[1]:
      Another local style — the Senegalese funk called mbalax — arrived with the singer Fallou Dieng, a protégé of the Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour.

French

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Noun

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mbalax m (uncountable)

  1. (music) mbalax (music style)

Further reading

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