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hova

hova

See also: hová

Hopi

Noun

hova

  1. 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)

  1. Alternative form of hová

Derived terms