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A male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually…A male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually associated with women.
Meaning
1 sensesA male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually associated with women.
Origin
A mistranslation of Burmese အခြောက် (a.hkrauk /ăhcauʔ/, “dry article; homosexual man”),A mistranslation of Burmese အခြောက် (a.hkrauk /ăhcauʔ/, “dry article; homosexual man”), from အ (a. /ă/, noun-forming prefix) + ခြောက် (hkrauk /hcauʔ/, “dry”). Apparently introduced before 1987 by Coleman et al. (see quotation below) who had an "inability to speak the local languages" and a "lack of training in anthropology".
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