folk song

See also: folksong

English

From folk +‎ song.

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:
Cantonese: 民歌 (man⁴ go¹)

Mandarin: 民歌 (zh) (míngē), 民謠／民谣 (zh) (mínyáo), 歌謠／歌谣 (zh) (gēyáo)
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