Noun

bakla (plural baklas)Category:English lemmas#BAKLACategory:English nouns#BAKLACategory:English countable nouns#BAKLACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BAKLACategory:Pages with entries#BAKLACategory:Pages with 6 entries#BAKLA

1. (PhilippinesCategory:Philippine English#BAKLA) Effeminate man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bakˈlaʔ/ [bakˈl̪aʔ]Category:Central Bikol terms with IPA pronunciation#BAKLA
• Hyphenation: bak‧la

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology

Borrowed from TagalogCategory:Palauan terms borrowed from Tagalog#BAKLACategory:Palauan terms derived from Tagalog#BAKLA bakla.

Noun

baklaCategory:Palauan lemmas#BAKLACategory:Palauan nouns#BAKLACategory:Palauan entries with incorrect language header#BAKLACategory:Pages with entries#BAKLACategory:Pages with 6 entries#BAKLA

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

References

• 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. Category:pau:LGBTQ#BAKLACategory:pau:Sexual orientations#BAKLA

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High GermanCategory:Slovene terms borrowed from Middle High German#BAKLACategory:Slovene terms derived from Middle High German#BAKLA vackel. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /báːkla/Category:Slovene 2-syllable words#BAKLACategory:Slovene terms with IPA pronunciation#BAKLA
• Rhymes: -áːklaCategory:Rhymes:Slovene/áːkla#BAKLACategory:Rhymes:Slovene/áːkla/2 syllables#BAKLA
• Hyphenation: ba‧kla

Noun

bȃkla fCategory:Slovene lemmas#BAKLACategory:Slovene nouns#BAKLACategory:Slovene entries with incorrect language header#BAKLACategory:Slovene feminine nouns#BAKLACategory:Pages with entries#BAKLACategory:Pages with 6 entries#BAKLA

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:

     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.

     Category:Slovene terms with quotations#BAKLA

Further reading

• “bakla”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “bakla”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references Category:sl:Fire#BAKLACategory:sl:Light sources#BAKLA

Alternative forms

• bacla — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Etymology 1

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 +‎ lalakiCategory:Tagalog blends#BAKLA.
• 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.

Etymology 2

References

Further reading

• “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.‎ (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, College of Arts and Sciences, University of the Philippines., 1992

Anagrams

• bakal, balak, labak, kalba

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman TurkishCategory:Turkish terms inherited from Ottoman Turkish#BAKLACategory:Turkish terms derived from Ottoman Turkish#BAKLA باقلا (bakla, “broad bean”), from ArabicCategory:Turkish terms derived from Arabic#BAKLA بَاقِلّاء (bāqillāʔ, “broad bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bakˈɫa/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#BAKLA
• IPA^(key): (Cypriot) /pakˈɫa/Category:Turkish terms with IPA pronunciation#BAKLA (as if spelled pakla)

• Audio:

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  Category:Turkish terms with audio pronunciation#BAKLA

Noun

bakla (definite accusative baklayı, plural baklalar)Category:Turkish lemmas#BAKLACategory:Turkish nouns#BAKLACategory:Turkish entries with incorrect language header#BAKLACategory:Pages with entries#BAKLACategory:Pages with 6 entries#BAKLA

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

Further reading

• “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