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Hip-hop music, especially when focused on rapping.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rap, hip-hop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: black music, African-American music, popular music, popular music genre
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
rap
— music form
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Afrikaans:
kletsrym
— music form
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Arabic:
مُوسِيقَى اَلرَّاب
(mūsīqā r-rāb)
— music form
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Arabic:
اَلرَّاب
(ar-rāb)
— music form
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Armenian:
ռեպ
(ṙep)
— music form
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Armenian:
ռեփ
(ṙepʻ)
— music form
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Azerbaijani:
rep
— music form
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Bulgarian:
рап
(rap)
— music form
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Chinese Mandarin:
饒舌 /饶舌
(ráoshé)
— music form
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Chinese Mandarin:
說唱 /说唱
(shuōchàng)
— music form
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Dutch:
rap
— music form
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Esperanto:
repo
— music form
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Esperanto:
repmuziko
— music form
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Finnish:
rap-musiikki
— music form
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Finnish:
räppi
— music form
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French:
rap
— music form
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Georgian:
რეპი
(reṗi)
— music form
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German:
Rap
— music form
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Hawaiian:
mele pāleoleo
— music form
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Hindi:
रैप
(raip)
— music form
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Icelandic:
rapp
— music form
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Icelandic:
rapptónlist
— music form
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Irish:
ceol rap
— music form
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Irish:
rapcheol
— music form
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Japanese:
ラップ
(rappu)
— music form
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Korean:
랩
(raep)
— music form
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Latin:
mūsica malleāta
— music form
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Latin:
mūsica pulsāta
— music form
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Māori:
puoro rapi
— music form
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Māori:
puoro pātōtō
— music form
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Marathi:
रॅप
(rĕp)
— music form
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Polish:
rap
— music form
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Portuguese:
rap
— music form
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Portuguese:
hip hop
— music form
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Russian:
рэп
(rɛp)
— music form
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Spanish:
rap
— music form
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Swahili:
rap
— music form
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Turkish:
rap
— music form
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Turkish:
rep
— music form
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Turkish:
meyhane
— music form
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Uyghur:
رەپ
(rep)
— music form