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berdacheenUK
ber·dache B0197000 (bər-dăsh′)n. Among certain Native American peoples, a person, usually a male, who assumes the gender identity and is granted the social status of the opposite sex. [North American French, from French bardache, catamite, from Italian dialectal bardascia, from Arabic bardaj, slave, from Persian bardah, prisoner, from Middle Persian vartak, from Old Iranian *varta-; see welə- in Indo-European roots.] ber·dach′ism n.berdache (bəˈdæʃ) na Native American transvestiteber•dache (bərˈdæʃ) n. (in some American Indian tribes) a man who adopts the dress and social roles traditionally assigned to women. [1800–10; < North American French; French bardache boy prostitute < South Italian bardascia < Arabic bardaj slave < Persian bardag] berdacheenUK The name given by early French explorers to Native Americans who fulfilled mixed gender roles, either as male two spirits or female two spiritsberdache (bĕr-dăsh′) [Fr.] A person of a definite sex, male or female, who assumes the status and role of the opposite sex and is viewed by the community as being of one physiologic sex but as having assumed the status and role of the opposite sex. |