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berdache

noun
/bəˈdæʃ/UK/bɚˈdæʃ/US

Etymology

From French bardache, from Italian bardassa, perhaps from Arabic بَرْدَج (bardaj, “slave”). Doublet of bardash.

  1. derived from بَرْدَج
  2. derived from bardassa
  3. borrowed from bardache

Definitions

  1. Among Native Americans, a person who identifies with any of a variety of gender…

    Among Native Americans, a person who identifies with any of a variety of gender identities which are not exclusively those of their biological sex; a transgender person.

    • Male berdache have been documented in nearly 150 North American societies, while female berdache (females who take on the lifeways of males) appear in half as many groups.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for berdache. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA