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English
Etymology
Shortened form of popular music.
Noun
pop music (usually uncountable, plural pop musics)
- Music intended for or accepted by a wide audience, usually with a commercial basis and distinguished from other genres such as classical music and folk music, and nowadays also from rock music.
Pop music, despite its commercial focus, includes many artistic gems.
Translations
music intended for or accepted by a wide audience
— see also popular music
- Arabic: مُوسِيقَى البوب m (mūsīqā al-pop, -bob), مُوسِيقَى شَعْبِيَّة f (mūsīqā šaʕbiyya)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 流行音樂 / 流行音乐 (zh) (liúxíng yīnyuè)
- Dutch: pop (nl), popmuziek (nl)
- Finnish: pop-musiikki (fi), populäärimusiikki
- French: musique pop (fr) f, pop (fr) m
- Georgian: პოპ-მუსიკა (ṗoṗ-musiḳa), პოპი (ṗoṗi)
- German: Popmusik (de) f
- Hindi: पॉप संगीत m (pŏp saṅgīt)
- Hungarian: popzene (hu), könnyűzene (hu)
- Italian: musica leggera
- Japanese: ポップ・ミュージック (poppu myūjikku), ポップ (ja) (poppu)
- Korean: 팝 음악 (pap eumak), 팝 (pap)
- Macedonian: поп музика f (pop muzika), поп (mk) m (pop)
- Maori: puoro arotini
- Marathi: पॉप संगीत n (pŏp saṅgīt)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: popmusikk m
- Nynorsk: popmusikk m
- Polish: pop-music (pl) f, muzyka pop f
- Portuguese: pop (pt) m, música pop (pt) f
- Romanian: muzică pop (ro) f
- Russian: поп-му́зыка (ru) f (pop-múzyka), эстра́дная му́зыка f (estrádnaja múzyka), поп (ru) m (pop), попса́ (ru) f (popsá) (slang)
- Spanish: música pop f, música popular f
- Swedish: popmusik (sv) c, pop (sv) c
- Welsh: cerddoriaeth bop f
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