mbalax
French, noun\mba.laks\
mbalax is a French masculine noun meaning “mbalax (music style)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Type de musique populaire dansant et rythmé, développé au Sénégal sous l’influence du zouk, du soukous, du…”.
What does mbalax mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinembalax (music style)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Type de musique populaire dansant et rythmé, développé au Sénégal sous l’influence du zouk, du soukous, du funk et du jazz depuis les années 1970.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mbalax
- mbalakh
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mbalax?
- \mba.laks\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mbalax in French?
mbalax appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).