🌏 Region(s): Honshu (Standard)
ばら・バラ【薔薇】 : bara | define meaning
bara
Definition
Noun
- (Plant, flower) Rose; rosebush
- (Slang, genre) Homoerotica media of pornographic nature; bara
Etymology
Sense 1: Derived from いばら【茨・荊・棘】 ibara "thorny bush; briar" or "wild rose". Historical variants also include うばら ubara and むばら mubara. Sense 2: Originally from ばらぞく【薔薇族】 barazoku "rose tribe", the name of Japan's first commercially-circulated gay male magazine (1971). Its name stems from the fact that the rose was perceived as symbol of homosexuality in Japan
意味：ばら・バラ【薔薇】、ローズ、メンズラブ