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balafón

Spanish, noun/balaˈfon/

balafón is spelled B-A-L-A-F-Ó-N (7 letters). Balafón is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “balafon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Instrumento musical de percusión se construye con bambú y calabazas es parecido al xilófono”.

What does balafón mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinebalafon

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Instrumento musical de percusión se construye con bambú y calabazas es parecido al xilófono.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of balafón

  • balafones plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce balafón?

  • /balaˈfon/
  • [ba.laˈfõn]
  • [balaˈfõn]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

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