Masculine

Nebenmann

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) one who is standing or sitting next to one (male or unspecified sex)
  2. (masculine, strong) secondary husband; a man in a polyandric system who is inferior to a principal husband (due to ethnological reality, this sense is more common for the feminine Nebenfrau)

Synonyms

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈneːbənˌman/
Etymology

From neben + Mann.

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