bakla

bakla (plural baklas)

1. (Philippines) Effeminate man.

• IPA^(key): /bakˈlaʔ/ [bakˈl̪aʔ]
• Hyphenation: bak‧la

baklâ (Basahan spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜎ)

1. tank goby

baklâ (Basahan spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜎ)

1. (derogatory) effeminate man; fag
2. gay male, homosexual man

   Synonym: bading

Borrowed from Tagalog bakla.

bakla

1. an effeminate man
2. a gay or homosexual male

• bakla in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• bakla in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• bakla in Lewis S. Josephs; Edwin G. McManus; Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977), Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 5.

Borrowed from Middle High German vackel. First attested in the 16th century.

• IPA^(key): /báːkla/
• Rhymes: -áːkla
• Hyphenation: ba‧kla

bȃkla f

1. torch (a lamp made of wood or flammable material on a holder)
   • 2021 May 27, IK, STA, Policija zavrača očitke o selektivni obravnavi protestnikov‎^[1]:

     Kljub opozorilom, da vse to ni dovoljeno, je bila po pojasnili PU Ljubljana tudi na petkovem protestu v množici prižgana bakla in prinesene daljše palice, ki so jih zasegli. "Policija ne more in ne sme tolerirati takih kršitev, ne glede na to, kdo jih je storil. Prav navedbe, ki namigujejo, da bi morala policija tuje državljane drugače obravnavati, pomenijo etično profiliranje in opredeljevanje glede na rasno, versko, narodnostno ali kakšno drugo pripadnost, česar pa policija absolutno ne podpira. Zoper vse kršitelje bo vedno ukrepano na enak način," so poudarili na policiji.

     Despite warnings that all this was not allowed, the Ljubljana Police explained that even at Friday's protest a torch was lit in the crowd and longer sticks were brought in and confiscated. "The police cannot and must not tolerate such violations, regardless of who committed them. The very allegations that suggest that the police should treat foreign nationals differently amount to ethical profiling and profiling on the basis of race, religion, nationality or any other affiliation, which the police absolutely do not support. All offenders will always be dealt with in the same way," the police stressed.

• “bakla”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “bakla”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• bacla — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

From alteration of bakle (“homosexual”) possibly to sound more feminine (cf. Spanish -a (feminine suffix)), from bakli (“broken by bending; bent; crooked”), picturesque illustrating the incapacity of the male sex organ to exercise an erection.^[1] The connotation of being “broken” led homosexuals around the 1970s to use other words such as badap, bading, marikona, etc. to refer to homosexuals. Compare also the analogy with English straight (“heterosexual”) and bent (“homosexual”).

Alternate theories for the etymology include:

• From blend of babae +‎ lalaki.
• From bakla (“fear; worry; perturbed”). See etymology 2. Perhaps attributed to “cowardice” or “fearfulness”. The insertion of the glottal stop may be a late evolution of the word.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /bakˈlaʔ/ [bɐkˈlaʔ]

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• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: bak‧la

baklâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜎ) (colloquial, mildly derogatory)

1. effeminate man; womanish man; homosexual male

   Synonyms: bading, bayot, beki, baklita, binabae, badap, (gay slang) siyoki, (gay slang) siyokla, (gay slang) baklush, (slang) x-men, (historical) asog, (euphemistic) dalaginding, (slang) sirena, (gay slang) marikona, (slang) biniboy, (slang) balalayka, (slang) bakle, (obsolete) babainin; see also Thesaurus:bakla

2. (by extension) homosexual

   Synonym: homoseksuwal

baklâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜎ) (colloquial, mildly derogatory)

1. effeminate; womanish; homosexual

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /bakˈla/ [bɐkˈla]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: bak‧la

baklá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃ᜔ᜎ)

1. distress; perplexity; worry; concern

   Synonyms: pag-aalaala, di-pagkapalagay

2. alarm; fear caused by sudden realization of danger

   Synonyms: sindak, bagabag, tigatig, alarma

3. (obsolete) deception with flattery to persuade someone

• “bakla”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[2] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag., page 283: “Engañar) Bacla [(pc) con finjidas] palabras para perſuadir le a haçer algo”
• tagalog-dictionary.com
• The Diliman Review‎^[3], College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines., 1992

• bakal, balak, labak, kalba

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish باقلا (bakla, “broad bean”), from Arabic بَاقِلّاء (bāqillāʔ, “broad bean”).

• IPA^(key): /bakˈɫa/
• IPA^(key): (Cypriot) /pakˈɫa/ (as if spelled pakla)

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bakla (definite accusative baklayı, plural baklalar)

1. broad bean, any edible bean of the species Vicia faba, widely cultivated as a crop

   Synonym: ful

2. link, one element of a chain or other connected series

   Synonym: halka

• “bakla”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “bakla”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “bakla”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1692
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “bakla”, in Nişanyan Sözlük