K-pop

See also: K-Pop, Kpop, and KPop

English

Alternative forms

• K-Pop, Kpop, KPop

Etymology

From K- (“Korean”) +‎ pop, by analogy with J-pop.

Noun

K-pop (uncountable)

1. (music) South Korean pop music influenced by Western styles.
   • 2018 December 11, Kevin Liao, “At First I Was a K-Pop Skeptic. Not Anymore.”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Somehow, even I got sucked into this strange K-pop universe. Sure, the quality of the music is sometimes debatable.

Translations

Korean pop music

• Arabic: كِيْ بُوب m (kē būb), بُوبْ كُورِيّ m (būb kūriyy)
• Bavarian: K-Pop m
• Bulgarian: ке́йпоп (kéjpop)
• Burmese: ကေပေါ့ (kepau.)
• Catalan: K-pop m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 韓國流行音樂／韩国流行音乐 (Hánguó liúxíng yīnyuè)

• French: K-pop (fr) f, pop coréenne f
• German: K-Pop (de) m
• Hungarian: K-pop
• Indonesian: K-pop (id)
• Italian: K-pop (it) m
• Japanese: Kポップ (kē-poppu), K-POP (kē-poppu)
• Korean: K-pop (kei-pap), 한국 팝 음악 (Han'guk pap eumak), K팝 (keipap), 케이팝 (ko) (keipap)
• Marathi: के-पॉप n (ke-pŏp)
• Mongolian: K-pop, К-поп (K-pop)
• Norwegian: K-pop
• Occitan: K-pop m
• Polish: K-pop (pl) m
• Portuguese: K-pop m
• Russian: кей-по́п (ru) m (kej-póp), коре́йский поп m (koréjskij pop), коре́йская поп-му́зыка f (koréjskaja pop-múzyka)
• Spanish: k-pop m, pop coreano m
• Thai: เคป็อป
• Vietnamese: K-Pop

Coordinate terms

• Cantopop
• C-pop
• HK-pop
• H-pop
• Indopop
• I-pop
• J-pop
• L-pop
• Mandopop
• M-pop
• Pinoy pop
• P-pop
• Q-pop
• T-pop
• V-pop

 

Derived terms

• Q-pop

Further reading

• K-pop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Korean

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [kʰe̞ipʰa̠p̚]
• Phonetic hangul: [케이팝]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	keipap
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	keipab
McCune–Reischauer?	k'eip'ap
Yale Romanization?	kheyi.phap

Noun

Kpop • (keipap)

1. (music) Alternative form of 케이팝 (keipap, “K-pop”)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English K-pop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛj.pɔp/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛjpɔp
• Syllabification: K-‧pop

Noun

K-pop m inan (related adjective k-popowy)

1. K-pop (South Korean pop music influenced by Western styles)

Declension

Declension of K-pop

	singular
nominative	K-pop
genitive	K-popu
dative	K-popowi
accusative	K-pop
instrumental	K-popem
locative	K-popie
vocative	K-popie

Further reading

• K-pop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌkejˈpɔ.pi/ [ˌkeɪ̯ˈpɔ.pi], /ˌkejˈpɔp/ [ˌkeɪ̯ˈpɔp]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌkejˈpɔ.pi/ [ˌkeɪ̯ˈpɔ.pi], /ˌkejˈpɔp/ [ˌkeɪ̯ˈpɔp]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌkejˈpɔp/ [ˌkeɪ̯ˈpɔp], /ˌkejˈpɔ.pi/ [ˌkeɪ̯ˈpɔ.pi]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌkɐjˈpɔp/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌkɐjˈpɔp/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌkejˈpɔp/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌkejˈpɔp/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌkeˈpɔp/

Noun

K-pop m (uncountable)

1. (music) K-pop (Korean pop music)