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Shortening of rock and roll music
rock music uncountable
( music ) genre of popular music , including especially those styles ultimately derived from rock and roll , employing electrical amplification , heavy use of guitars, 4/4 time with strong percussive rhythm on beats two and four (backbeat ), and usually themes of bold wildness, rebellion, and sexuality.popular music genre
Afrikaans: rockmusiek
Arabic: مُوسِيقَى الرُّوك f ( mūsīqā r-rūk ) , رُوك m ( rūk ) , رُوك m ( rok )
Armenian: ռոք (hy) ( ṙokʻ )
Asturian: rock (ast)
Azerbaijani: rok (az) , rok musiqisi
Bashkir: рок ( rok )
Belarusian: рок-му́зыка f ( rok-múzyka )
Bengali: রক সঙ্গীত ( rok śoṅgit )
Breton: sonerezh rock
Bulgarian: рок му́зика f ( rok múzika )
Burmese: ရော့ခ်ဂီတ ( rauhk.gita. )
Carpathian Rusyn: рок-му́зика f ( rok-múzyka )
Catalan: música rock f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 搖滾音樂 / 摇滚音乐 (zh) ( yáogǔn yīnyuè ) , 搖滾樂 / 摇滚乐 (zh) ( yáogǔnyuè )
Chuvash: рок-мусӑк ( rok-mus̬ăk )
Czech: rock (cs) m
Danish: rock (da) c
Dutch: rockmuziek (nl) f
Esperanto: rokmuziko roko rok-muziko
Estonian: rokk (et) , rokkmuusika
Finnish: rokki (fi)
French: rock (fr) m musique rock f
Frisian:
West Frisian: rockmuzyk c or n
Galician: música rock f
Georgian: როკ-მუსიკა ( roḳ-musiḳa )
German: Rockmusik (de) f
Greek: ροκ μουσική f ( rok mousikí )
Hebrew: מוזיקת רוק f ( múzikat rok )
Hindi: रॉक m ( rŏk )
Hungarian: rockzene (hu) , rock (hu)
Icelandic: rokk (is) n
Ido: rock (io)
Indonesian: musik rok (id)
Interlingua: rock
Irish: rac-cheol m
Italian: rock (it) m
Jamaican Creole: rak myuuzik
Japanese: ロック音楽 ( ロックおんがく, rokku ongaku ) , ロック (ja) ( rokku )
Kazakh: рок-музыка ( rok-muzyka )
Korean: 락 음악 ( rak eumak ) , 락 (ko) ( rak )
Latin: ( New Latin ) rockiana f rociana f rockianus m rocianus m musica rock f
Latvian: rokmūzika f roks m
Lithuanian: rokas m
Luxembourgish: Rockmusek f
Macedonian: рок-музика f ( rok-muzika )
Malay: muzik rock
Malayalam: റോക്ക് ( ṟōkkŭ )
Marathi: रॉक संगीत n ( rŏk saṅgīt )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: рок хөгжим ( rok xögžim )
Nepali: रक सङ्गीत ( rak saṅgīt )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: rockemusikk m
Nynorsk: rockemusikk m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: موسیقیِ راک ( musiġi-ye râk ) , راک (fa) ( râk )
Polish: rock (pl) m
Portuguese: rock (pt) m
Punjabi:
Gurmukhi: ਰੌਕ ਸੰਗੀਤ ( rauk saṅgīt )
Western Punjabi: روک مُوسِیقِی ( rok mūsīqī )
Romanian: muzică rock f
Russian: рок-му́зыка (ru) f ( rok-múzyka ) , рок (ru) m ( rok )
Scottish Gaelic: roc
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: рок глазба f рок музика f рок m
Sinhalese: රොක් සංගීතය ( rok saṁgītaya )
Slovak: rock m rok (sk) m
Slovene: rock (sl) m
Swedish: rockmusik (sv) c
Tamil: ராக் இசை ( rāk icai )
Thai: ร็อก ( rɔ́k ) , เพลงร็อก
Turkish: rock müzik
Ukrainian: рок-му́зика f ( rok-múzyka )
Urdu: راک مُوسِیقِی f ( rāk mūsīqī )
Uzbek: rok-musiqa
Vietnamese: nhạc rock rock (vi)
Welsh: cerddoriaeth roc f
West Flemish: rockmuziek f
2001. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America . Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). Pg. 347. 
