"shemale" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈʃi.meɪl/ [US] Audio: En-us-ncalif-shemale.ogg [Northern-California, US] Forms: shemales [plural]
Rhymes: -iːmeɪl Etymology: she + male Etymology templates: {{compound|en|she|male}} she + male Head templates: {{en-noun}} shemale (plural shemales)
  1. (offensive, proscribed, especially in pornography) A male-to-female transsexual or transgender person; a trans woman. Tags: especially, offensive, proscribed Categories (topical): Pornography, LGBT, People, Sexuality, Transgender Translations (a male-to-female transsexual or transgender person): 人妖 (rényāo) (Chinese Mandarin), sukupuolenvaihtaja (note: has no specific word; may use "transgender person") (Finnish), transexuelle [feminine] (French), Shemale (english: anglicism) [feminine, uncommon] (German), קוֹקְסִינֶל (qoqsinél) [masculine] (Hebrew), ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu) (Japanese), 쉬메일 (swimeil) (Korean), شیمیل (ši-meyl) (english: anglicism) (Persian), shemale [feminine] (Polish), traveco (Portuguese), шиме́йл (šimɛ́jl) (english: anglicism, indeclinable if used as feminine) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), членоде́вка (členodévka) [feminine, slang, vulgar] (Russian), шмель (šmelʹ) [feminine, masculine] (Russian), travelo [masculine] (Spanish), shemale (english: anglicism) (Swedish), transsexuell person (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-shemale-en-noun-hSzJFBpp Disambiguation of LGBT: 56 44 Disambiguation of People: 97 3 Disambiguation of Sexuality: 64 36 Disambiguation of Transgender: 57 43 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'a male-to-female transsexual or transgender person': 93 7
  2. (biology, nonstandard, see usage notes) A male animal which displays female traits or behaviors; for example, a male reptile which gives off female pheromones. Tags: nonstandard Categories (topical): Biology
    Sense id: en-shemale-en-noun-Z33rGlxN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 53 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 57 Topics: biology, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: she-male Related terms: ladyboy, newhalf Translations (translations to be checked): ქალაბიჭა (kalabič̣a) (Georgian), ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu) (note: pseudo-anglicism: from "new half") (Japanese), saplı sultan (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'translations to be checked': 45 55

Inflected forms

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