berdache

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Sinonieme

transvestite

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bəˈdaʃ/

Etimologie (Engels)

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