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Mukhannath (مُخَنَّث; plural mukhannathun (مُخَنَّثون); "effeminate ones", "ones who resemble women") was a term used in Classical Arabic and Islamic literature to describe effeminate men or people with ambiguous sexual characteristics, [6] who appeared feminine and functioned sexually or socially in roles typically carried out by women. [8]
Hijra Farsi is a secret language spoken by South-Asian Hijra and Kothi (also Koti) communities. Hijras are a marginalized transgender community that lives in sequestered groups in many cities of India and Pakistan.
In linguistics, feminization refers to the process of re-classifying nouns and adjectives which as such refer to male beings, including occupational terms, as feminine. This is done most of the time by adding inflectional suffixes denoting a female (such as the standard suffix -ess in English, or its equivalent -a in Spanish ).
It may also correspond to some other difference in the meaning of the word. For example, the German word See meaning "lake" is masculine, whereas the identical word meaning "sea" is feminine. The meanings of the Norwegian noun ting have diverged further: masculine en ting is "a thing", whereas neuter et ting is "an assembly".
Pashto verbs are of four categories: simple verbs, prefixed verbs, a-initial verbs and compound verbs. Prefixed verbs, a-initial verbs and compound verbs are separable. Pashto verbs can be conjugated by the bases they have. Present and imperative forms are formed on present bases. Past, optative, and infinitive forms are formed on past bases.
Feroz-ul-Lughat Urdu Jamia (Urdu: فیروز الغات اردو جامع) is an Urdu-to-Urdu dictionary published by Ferozsons (Private) Limited. It was originally compiled by Maulvi Ferozeuddin in 1897. The dictionary contains about 100,000 ancient and popular words, compounds, derivatives, idioms, proverbs, and modern scientific, literary ...
Vani (Urdu: ونی), or Swara (سوارہ), is a custom where girls, often minors, are given in marriage or servitude to an aggrieved family as compensation to end disputes, often murder. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Vani is a form of arranged or forced child marriage , [ 3 ] and the result of punishment decided by a council of tribal elders named jirga .
Feminization (sociology), a perceived societal shift of gender roles toward the characteristically "female" Feminization (biology), the hormonally induced development of female sexual characteristics; Feminization (sexual activity), a sexual or lifestyle practice where a person assumes a female role; Feminization may also refer to: