berdache

[ber-dash]

noun

(in some American Indian tribes) a man who adopts the dress and social roles traditionally assigned to women.

Origin:
1800–10; < North American French; French bardache passive partner in sodomy, boy prostitute < South Italian bardascia < Arabic bardaj slave < Persian bardah

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