BL
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Translingual
Symbol
BL
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Saint Barthélemy since 2007.
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviations.
Proper noun
BL
- Initialism of British Leyland.
Noun
BL (plural BLs)
- (UK military) Initialism of breechloader.
- 1879, War Office, Manual of Siege and Garrison Artillery Exercises, page 37:
Adjective
BL (not comparable)
- (UK military) Initialism of breechloading.
Etymology 2
From Japanese BL (BL), from ボーイズラブ, from English boy+love.
Noun
BL (uncountable)
- Initialism of boys' love (“yaoi media”).
Anagrams
Chinese
Etymology
From Japanese BL (bīeru), from ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), from English boys + love.
Noun
BL
- boys' love (yaoi media); gay, male homosexuality
Synonyms
- 耽美 (dānměi)
Coordinate terms
German
Proper noun
BL
- ISO 3166-2:CH code of Basel-Landschaft (canton)
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
- Initialism of ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu, “boys' love”).
- Coordinate terms: BL (BL, literally “boys' love”), GL (GL, literally “girls' love”), NL (NL, “heterosexual love”, literally “normal love; nonke love”), TL (TL, literally “teens' love”)
Korean
Noun
BL
- Initialism of 보이즈 러브 (boijeu reobeu, “boys' love”).