"balafon" meaning in Français

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Noun

IPA: \ba.la.fɔ̃\ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-balafon.wav Forms: balafons [plural]
  1. Instrument de musique à percussion de l’Afrique occidentale.
    Sense id: fr-balafon-fr-noun-5XufCN~q Categories (other): Exemples en français, Instruments de percussion en français Topics: music
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: balafa Translations: Balafon (Allemand), balafon (Anglais), bala (Balante-ganja), балафон (balafon) (Bulgare), balàfon [masculine] (Catalan), balafon (Danois), balafón [masculine] (Espagnol), baláfono [masculine] (Espagnol), balafon (Finnois), balafoni (Finnois), balafon [masculine] (Galicien), balafon (Gallois), balafon (Hongrois), balafon (Italien), balafoon (Limbourgeois), kpɛngbɛ (Lingala), balafon (Norvégien (bokmål)), balafoon (Néerlandais), balafon (Polonais), balafon (Portugais), balafon (Roumain), балафон (balafon) (Russe), балафон (balafon) (Serbe), balafon (Suédois), балафон (balafon) (Ukrainien)

Inflected forms

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