two-spirit

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /tuːˈspɪɹɪt/|/ˈtuːˌspɪɹɪt/    美 /tuˈspɪɹɪt/|/ˈtuˌspɪɹɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Native North American bisexual, homosexual, or gender-variant person; especially one belonging to a traditional tribal third-gender, fourth-gender, or transgender cultural category that has a ceremonial role. Canada,US
    — The Lakota, by the way, called their Two-Spirits winkte and wapetokeca which means "people with special powers."
形容词 adj.
  1. Involving two spirits; especially, pertaining to the doctrine of dualism espoused in the so-called Treatise on the Two Spirits in the Dead Sea Scrolls. not-comparable
    — Paul's grasp of the [Holy] Spirit as the sign of the erupting messianic age is at odds with the two-spirit thought of Qumran which never became incompatible with law observance.
  2. Of, pertaining to, or being a two-spirit (noun sense). Canada,US,not-comparable
    — A Hupa two-spirit male told me: / I was real feminine as a child, from as early as I can remember. […] Within the family, Indians believe you can be whatever you choose.

词形变化

two-spirits plural two spirit alternative

词源

词源 1
PIE word
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From two + spirit.
词源 2
The noun is derived from two + spirit, coined in 1990 at the Third Annual Inter-tribal Native American, First Nations, Gay and Lesbian American Conference held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, based on Ojibwe niizh manidoowag (“two spirits”) (coined at the same conference), from niizh (“two”) + manidoo (“spirit”) + -wag (suffix denoting the third-person plural of an animate noun); the term was created to replace berdache in anthropological literature which was considered offensive.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
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