hard rock

See also: hardrock

English

Noun

hard rock (uncountable)

1. (music) A rock music genre marked by a heavy regular beat, high amplification, and usually frenzied performances.

Derived terms

• hard rocker

Hypernyms

• rock

Related terms

• adult-oriented rock
• Celtic rock
• folk rock
• light rock
• mellow rock
• nyacht rock
• soft rock
• yacht rock

 

Translations

rock music genre

• Arabic: هَارْد رُوك‎ m (hārd rok), هَارْد رُوك‎ m (hārd rūk)
• Bulgarian: хард рок m (hard rok)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硬式搖滾, 硬式摇滚 (yìngshì yáogǔn), 重搖滾, 重摇滚 (zhòng yáogǔn)

• Finnish: hard rock
• French: hard rock (fr) m
• Georgian: მძიმე როკი (mʒime roḳi)
• German: Hard Rock m, Hardrock m
• Japanese: ハードロック (hādorokku)

• Korean: 하드 록 (hadeu rok)
• Marathi: हार्ड रॉक n (hārḍa rŏk)
• Persian: هارد راک‎ (hârd râk)
• Portuguese: hard rock m
• Russian: хард-ро́к (ru) m (xard-rók), тяжёлый рок (ru) m (tjažólyj rok)
• Swedish: hårdrock (sv) c
• Turkish: hard rock
• Vietnamese: hard rock

See also

• heavy metal

References

• hard rock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• rock hard, rock-hard, rockhard

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Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hard rock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑrdˌrokː(i)/, [ˈhɑrdˌro̞kː(i)]
• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːdˌrokː(i)/, [ˈhɑːdˌro̞kː(i)]

Noun

hard rock

1. hard rock

Declension

Inflection of hard rock (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		hard rock	hard rockit
genitive		hard rockin	hard rockien
partitive		hard rockia	hard rockeja
illative		hard rockiin	hard rockeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		hard rock	hard rockit
accusative	nom.	hard rock	hard rockit
	gen.	hard rockin
genitive		hard rockin	hard rockien
partitive		hard rockia	hard rockeja
inessive		hard rockissa	hard rockeissa
elative		hard rockista	hard rockeista
illative		hard rockiin	hard rockeihin
adessive		hard rockilla	hard rockeilla
ablative		hard rockilta	hard rockeilta
allative		hard rockille	hard rockeille
essive		hard rockina	hard rockeina
translative		hard rockiksi	hard rockeiksi
instructive		—	hard rockein
abessive		hard rockitta	hard rockeitta
comitative		—	hard rockeineen

Possessive forms of hard rock (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	hard rockini	hard rockimme
2nd person	hard rockisi	hard rockinne
3rd person	hard rockinsa

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Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hard rock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxard.rɔk/
• Rhymes: -ardrɔk

Noun

hard rock m inan

1. hard rock

Declension

Declension of hard rock

	singular
nominative	hard rock
genitive	hard rocka
dative	hard rockowi
accusative	hard rocka
instrumental	hard rockiem
locative	hard rocku
vocative	hard rocku

Derived terms

adjective

• hardrockowy

 

noun

• hardrockowiec

 

Further reading

• hard rock in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hard rock in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hard rock.

Noun

hard rock m (uncountable)

1. hard rock (subgenre of rock music)

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hard rock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌxaɾd ˈrok/, [ˌxaɾð̞ ˈrok]

Noun

hard rock m (uncountable)

1. hard rock

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.