Acault

Quick meaning: Acault is a noun meaning A male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually associated with women.

Meaning

A male who has special role in Myanmar folk religion and behaves in a way usually associated with women.

Example Sentences

A Burmese acault tells an ethnographer he is a woman only by his sexual role; otherwise, he expresses himself through his penis and its orgasms.

Because Manguedon is the spirit who controls success and good fortune, acault become an important intermediary between those seeking good fortune and success and the -^([sic]) spirit god.

Recall in any event that is not unusual, as Coleman et al. (1992:317) reported, for a male to have sexual relations with an acault or, presumably with someone in one of the other lexically marked subject positions, […]

According to a recent travelers' report (Coleman, Celgon, and Gooren, 1987), the hijra community of India (see this chapter) has a counterpart in Burma, where men who live as women are called acault (pronounced a·chow').

Word Forms

• acaults

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