mbalax

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Noun

mbalax m (uncountable)

1. (music) mbalax (music style)

Further reading

• “mbalax”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.