two-spirit

短语

发音

UK /tuːˈspɪɹɪt/
其它
UK /ˈtuːˌspɪɹɪt/
US /tuˈspɪɹɪt/
US /ˈtuˌspɪɹɪt/

词形变化

two-spirits 复数

别名

two spirit

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    加拿大 美国
adj.
  1. 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.

    宗教
  2. 1.

    Of, pertaining to, or being a two-spirit (noun sense).

    加拿大 美国

词源

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.

来源：wiktionary