Zenana

Quick meaning: Zenana is a noun meaning (South Asia) Synonym of sissy (“effeminate man”).

Meaning

(South Asia) Synonym of sissy (“effeminate man”).

More Meanings

1. (South Asia) Synonym of bottom (“passive partner in male homosexual sex”), especially an effeminate one.
2. (South Asia) Synonym of trans woman.
3. (South Asia) Synonym of harem (“area of house or palace for high-caste women or wives of a wealthy man; the women thus kept; the system of segregating women in this way”).

Example Sentences

Out of the blue, the chief eunuch of the zenana appears.

‘You have more than enough to occupy you, I'm sure, with all your palaces and zenanas and budgerows.’

Yet inside the walls of the havelis and the lattice screens of the zenana, life goes on as it always did.

In parts of North India, effeminate males who are assumed to play the passive role in homosexual relationships are referred to as zenana, literally meaning woman.

Word Forms

• zenanas

Synonyms for zenana

Depending on context, synonyms include harem, sissy, bottom, trans woman.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include seraglio, zenanah, zananah, zennana, zanana, zunana.

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