berdache

Significat (Anglès)

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.

Sinònims

transvestite

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bəˈdaʃ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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