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Japanese
Etymology
Borrowed from English lesbian or English Lesbian.
First cited to a text from the early 1930s.
Pronunciation
Noun
レスビアン • (resubian)
- Alternative form of レズビアン (rezubian, “lesbian”)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ “レスビアン”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “レスビアン”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000