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Gay arabic
Misli (مثلي), also written as Mithlyy, is the Arabic equivalent of the word Gay. A positive term coined by LGBT Arab organizations and LGBT Arab people, replacing the pejorative šāḏ.
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Below are the words of our Arabic Gay Dictionary that we will expand in new editions. If you know any more, please, contact us.
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One way to do so is by using the terms “mahjoub”, “mithli”, or “muhajab” which both mean gay man or homosexual male. Another term for a gay person used in some Arab countries is “shaz” which literally means effeminate man.
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Gift Drops. American English I'm gay.
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Arabic for “scorpion”—refers to a (cisgender or trans) woman who tries to “steal” a gay man’s partner. From the colloquial word for clitoris, zanbūr, and refers to a “strong” girl, who is so sexually active that her clitoris has morphed into a penis, i.e. is now manly. “Loose,” “swaying”; refers to effeminate men and boys.
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El Glosario Queer Árabe es la primera colección publicada de jerga LGBTQ+ árabe, editada por el artista y diseñador multidisciplinario Marwan Kaabour. Es una respuesta poderosa a los mitos y tropos generalizados sobre la sexualidad, capturando el léxico de la comunidad queer árabe en todas sus diferencias, peculiaridades y felicidades.
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“The Queer Arab Glossary” is an extensive glossary of words, statements and phrases used to refer to the LGBTQ+ community across the Arabic-speaking world. Through a study of the geographical, etymological, social and historical aspects of this lexicon, the glossary explores spoken dialect rather than technical, academic, and politically.
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PTF: Being gay and Arab places you in two sometimes conflicting cultures. What was that like, and how did it affect your sexual identity journey?
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