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hova
hova
See also: hová
Hopi
Noun
hova
- A person with a gender and/or sexuality that is not strictly male or female or heterosexual. Glossed by different references as "homosexual" or "berdache"/"two-spirit".
References
- David Leedom Shaul, A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon (ISBN 9027220158, 1985) (which glosses hova as "homosexual")
- Robert Christopher Basaldú, Hopi Hova: Anthropological Assumptions of Gendered Otherness in Native American Societies (1999)
- Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective (ISBN 0312223986, 2000)
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhovɒ]
- Hyphenation: ho‧va
Adverb
hova (not comparable)
- Alternative form of hová