# bara vs burqa

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### bara
*noun · IPA /ˈbɑː.ɹə/ · frequency rank #48,605*
A genre of homoerotic media, usually also pornographic, typically created by gay men and targeted at gay men in Japan.

### burqa
*noun · IPA /ˈbɜː.kə/ · frequency rank #48,107*
An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).

## Source
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