Two-spirit

//tuːˈspɪɹɪt//

Synonyms for "two-spirit" (5 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Noun(1 words)
2

Strong matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
2sberdache

Related words (2)

Noun(1 words)
hermaphrodite
Adjective(1 words)
two-spirited

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Related terms

3 entries

derived

3 entries

Translations

97 translations across 61 languages.

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Aleut

2 entries
  • ayagigux̂ noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • tayagigux̂ noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Alutiiq

1 entries
  • aranu'tiq noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Arapaho

1 entries
  • haxu'xan noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Arikara

1 entries
  • skuxát noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Assiniboine

1 entries
  • wįktą noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Atsugewi

2 entries
  • brumaiwi noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • yaawa noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Blackfoot

3 entries
  • a'yai-kik-ahsi noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • awau-katsik-saki noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • ninauh-oskiti-pahpyaki noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Central Siberian Yupik

2 entries
  • anasik noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • uktasik noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Cheyenne

3 entries
  • he'émane noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • he'émáné'e noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • hetanémáné'e noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Chiwere

1 entries
  • mixo'ge (transvestite or transgender person) noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Cocopa

2 entries
  • elha noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • warrhameh noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Cree

2 entries
  • êyihkwêw noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • ᐁᔨᐦᑵᐤ noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Crow

1 entries
  • bate noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Dakota

2 entries
  • winkta noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • wiŋkta noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Eastern Keres

1 entries
  • kokwima noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • duspirita adj (of, pertaining to, or being a two-spirit)
  • duspiritulo noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Finnish

3 entries
  • kahden sielun adj (involving two spirits; especially, pertaining to the doctrine of dualism)
  • kaksisieluinen adj (of, pertaining to, or being a two-spirit)
  • kaksisieluinen noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

French

4 entries
  • bispirituel adj (of, pertaining to, or being a two-spirit)
  • bardache noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • berdache noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • bispirituel noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

German

1 entries
  • Two-Spirit noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Gros Ventre

1 entries
  • athuth noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Hidatsa

1 entries
  • miati noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Hopi

1 entries
  • hova (quod vide) noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Inuktitut

2 entries
  • sipiniq noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • ᓯᐱᓂᖅ noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Itelmen

2 entries
  • koekchuch noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • коекчуч noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Kansa

1 entries
  • míⁿxoge noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Kings River Yokuts

1 entries
  • tonoo'tcim noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Klamath-Modoc

1 entries
  • t'winiːq noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Ktunaxa

2 entries
  • kupatke'tek noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • titqattek noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Kuna

1 entries
  • omegiid noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Lakota

1 entries
  • wíŋkte noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Luiseño

2 entries
  • cuit (Luiseño dialect; male-bodied) noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • kwit (Juaneño dialect; male-bodied) noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Mandan

1 entries
  • mihdeke noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Mapudungun

1 entries
  • weye noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Maricopa

2 entries
  • ilyaxai' noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • kwiraxame' noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Mojave

2 entries
  • alyha noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • hwame noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Navajo

2 entries
  • nádleeh noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • nádleehé noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Nomlaki

1 entries
  • walusa (hermaphrodite) noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Northern Paiute

1 entries
  • tüdayapi noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Ojibwe

2 entries
  • ikwekaazo noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • ininiikaazo noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Omaha-Ponca

1 entries
  • mix'uga noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Pawnee

2 entries
  • ckúsaat noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • kúsaat noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • dois-espíritos noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Potawatomi

1 entries
  • m'netokwe noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Quechua

1 entries
  • quariwarmi noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Quileute

1 entries
  • yah'wa noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Russian

2 entries
  • с двумя́ ду́шами adj (involving two spirits; especially, pertaining to the doctrine of dualism)
  • бердаш noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Southern Tiwa

1 entries
  • lhunide noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Southern Valley Yokuts

1 entries
  • tonochim noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Spanish

1 entries
  • dos espíritus noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Tewa

1 entries
  • kwido noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Tlingit

1 entries
  • gatxan noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Upper Kuskokwim

2 entries
  • angutnguaq noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • aranaruaq noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Ventureño

1 entries
  • 'aqi noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Wailaki

1 entries
  • clele noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Western Apache

1 entries
  • ndéʼsdzan noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Western Keres

2 entries
  • kok'we'ma noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • kokwimu noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Yuki

4 entries
  • iwap kuti noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • musp-íwap náip noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • í-wa-musp noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • íwap náip/ipnaip noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Yuma

2 entries
  • elxa' noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • kwe'rhame noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Yurok

2 entries
  • wergern noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • wrgrn noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Zapotec

1 entries
  • (ira') muxe noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Zuni

4 entries
  • katsotse noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • katsotstsi noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • katsotstsi' noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)
  • lhamana noun (Native North American gender-variant, bisexual, or homosexual person — see also berdache)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

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The Lakota, by the way, called their Two-Spirits winkte and wapetokeca which means "people with special powers."

Source: wiktionary

"The elders will tell you the difference between a gay Indian and a Two-Spirit," he [Joey Criddle] said, underscoring the idea that simply being gay and Indian does not make someone a Two-Spirit.

Source: wiktionary

The term/identity of two-spirit does not make sense unless it is contextualized within a Native American frame […] Today, most people associate the term with LGBT Natives; however, the work of the two-spirit organizations is more akin with the traditional understanding

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