Etymology
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Shortened form of popular music.
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.
Pop music, despite its commercial focus, includes many artistic gems.
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Translations
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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), 팝음악 (pabeumak), 팝 (pap)
- Macedonian: поп музика f (pop muzika), поп 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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