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Translingual
Etymology 1
Symbol
GL
- Alternative form of Gl (gigalitre)
Etymology 2
Symbol
GL
- (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Greenland.
- Synonym: GRL (alpha-3)
English
Etymology 1
From Japanese GL (gāruzu rabu), from ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu), from English girls + love.
Noun
GL (uncountable)
- Initialism of girls' love (“yuri media”).
Etymology 2
Prefix
GL
- (astronomy) Misspelling of Gl., the prefix for Gliese catalog of nearby stars
Anagrams
Chinese
Etymology
From Japanese GL (gāruzu rabu), from ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu), from English girls + love.
Noun
GL
- girls' love
Coordinate terms
Dutch
Etymology
From Groen Links.
Proper noun
GL
- GreenLeft, a left-wing green political party in the Netherlands
German
Proper noun
GL
- ISO 3166-2:CH code of Glarus (canton)
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
GL • (jīeru)
- Initialism of ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu, “girls' love”).
Coordinate terms
- BL (BL, “boy's love”)
- NL (NL, “heterosexual love”, literally “normal love; nonke love”)
- TL (TL, “teens' love”)
Romanian
Proper noun
GL
- Abbreviation of Galați, a county in Romania.