phonk

English

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phonk

Wikipedia

Etymology

Alteration of funk.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fŏngk
• (Received Pronunciation, Canada, General Australian, New Zealand, India) IPA^(key): /fɒŋk/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /fɑŋk/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /fɔŋk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋk

Noun

phonk (uncountable)

1. A style of music derived from hip-hop and trap music, directly inspired by 1990s Memphis rap.
2. Drift phonk.
   • 2024 April 15, Andy Ward, Briony Luttrell, Lachlan Goold, “How a global crisis, drift racing and Memphis hip-hop gave us phonk – the music of the TikTok generation”, in The Conversation‎:

     By smashing together components of hip-hop, EDM, metal and dubstep, phonk is placed as one of the most prominent new genres of music.

Derived terms

• Brazilian phonk
• drift phonk

Translations

a style of music derived from hip-hop and trap music

Arabic: فُونْكْ f (fūnk) Armenian: ֆոնք (fonkʻ) Assamese: ফংক (phoṅko) Japanese: フォンク (fonku) Russian: фонк m (fonk) Spanish: phonk m Ukrainian: фонк m (fonk) Walloon: fonk ?

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

phonk

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English phonk.

Noun

phonk m (uncountable)

1. phonk
   • 2017 February 28, David Broc, “El ‘phonk’, el sonido futurista del ‘hip hop’, triunfa en Internet”, in El País‎, archived from the original on 2 March 2017:

     ¿Por qué el phonk se ha colado entre las preferencias del usuario de Soundcloud?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.