Etymology

balafon

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Today it means: A wooden-keyed percussion idiophone of West Africa that is struck with two padded sticks. Full definition →

Mandinka balafoŋo
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The story

  1. Mandinka · borrowed frombalafoŋo
  2. English todaybalafon

From Mandinka balafoŋo.

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