folk song - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
folk song (plural folk songs)
- (music) A song, in any folk style, originating among ordinary people, usually non-professional musicians, and handed down by oral tradition.
- (music, uncountable) folk music
2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 190:
Before my father, Hasidic music was mere folksong. He raised it to the level of art.
- (music) A song in the style of folk music, a modern genre of popular music.
song originating among the working people
- Arabic: أُغْنِيَّة شَعْبِيَّة f (ʔuḡniyya šaʕbiyya)
- Chinese:
- Cornish: kan werin f
- Finnish: kansanlaulu (fi)
- French: chanson populaire f
- Galician: canción popular f, cántiga (gl) f
- Georgian: ხალხური სიმღერა (xalxuri simɣera)
- German: Volkslied (de) n
- Hindi: लोकगीत m (lokgīt)
- Hungarian: népdal (hu)
- Japanese: 民謡 (ja) (みんよう, min'yō), フォークソング (fōkusongu), 歌謡 (ja) (かよう, kayō)
- Korean: 민요(民謠) (ko) (minyo), 포크송 (pokeusong), 가요 (ko) (gayo)
- Latvian: tautas dziesma f
- Ottoman Turkish: تركی (türkü)
- Polish: piosenka ludowa f
- Russian: наро́дная пе́сня f (naródnaja pésnja)
- Swedish: folksång (sv) c, folkvisa (sv) c
- Turkish: türkü (tr), halk şarkısı
- Vietnamese: dân ca (vi) (民歌)
song in this style
- Chinese:
- Finnish: folk-kappale
- German: Folksong m
- Karakalpak: halıq qosıg'ı
- Russian: наро́дная пе́сня f (naródnaja pésnja)
- Swedish: folksång (sv) c
- Vietnamese: dân ca (vi) (民歌)