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},
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"2": "fa'afafine"
},
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"etymology_text": "From whaka- + wahine (“woman”). Cognate with Samoan fa'afafine.",
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{
"form": "whakawāhine",
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"Psychology",
"Sociology",
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"text": "Coordinate term: tangata ira tāne"
},
{
"ref": "2019 August 31, Alan Weedon, “Fa'afafine, fakaleitī, fakafifine — understanding the Pacific's alternative gender expressions”, in ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (in English), retrieved 2020-05-31",
"text": "In Samoa, people assigned male at birth who live as women are known as fa'afafine, which literally translates to \"in the fashion of a woman\". Similar identities to fa'afafine are found in Tonga (fakaleitī or leitī), Fiji (vaka sa lewa lewa), Niue (fakafifine), Kiribati and Tuvalu (pinapinaaine) and the Cook Islands (akava'ine).",
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"a person assigned male at birth who lives and behaves as a female socially; literally \"to become a woman\""
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"text": "Coordinate term: tangata ira tāne"
},
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"text": "In Samoa, people assigned male at birth who live as women are known as fa'afafine, which literally translates to \"in the fashion of a woman\". Similar identities to fa'afafine are found in Tonga (fakaleitī or leitī), Fiji (vaka sa lewa lewa), Niue (fakafifine), Kiribati and Tuvalu (pinapinaaine) and the Cook Islands (akava'ine).",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Maori dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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