Khanith
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Khanith (also spelled Khaneeth or referred to as Xanith; Arabic: خنيث, romanized: khanīth) denotes a person assigned male at birth who occupies an intermediate "third gender" between male and female.[1]
Etymology
[edit]The term stems from the Arabian Peninsula, primarily in Oman and the United Arab Emirates. It contains the same root as "mukhannathun" (Arabic: مخنث, romanized: mukhannath), meaning "effeminate".[2]
See also
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Roscoe, Will; Murray, Stephan (1997). Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature (illustrated ed.). New York University Press. ISBN 9780814774687. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
References
[edit]- ^ Amory, Deborah P.; Epprecht, Marc (1998), Murray, Stephen O.; Roscoe, Will (eds.), "Mashoga, Mabasha, and Magei: "Homosexuality" on the East African Coast", Boy-Wives and Female Husbands, Studies in African Homosexualities, State University of New York Press, pp. 65–84, ISBN 978-1-4384-8410-5, retrieved 2025-04-08
- ^ George Haggerty, ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures. Garland Publishing Inc. pp. 515–516. ISBN 0-8153-1880-4.
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