different between shehe vs androgynous

English

Noun

shehe (plural shehes)

1. Alternative form of she-he

Anagrams

• he-she, he/she, heshe

Chichewa

Etymology

From Swahili shehe (possibly via Yao shehe), from Arabic ?????? (šay?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??é.he/

Noun

shéhe 1a (plural ashéhe 2)

1. sheik (Muslim cleric)

Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (šay?).

Pronunciation

Noun

shehe (ma class, plural mashehe)

1. sheik (Muslim cleric)
2. (chess) king

See also

English

Etymology

From Latin androgynus (“man-woman, hermaphrodite”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (andrógunos), from ???? (an?r, “man”) +? ???? (gun?, “woman”) +? -?? (-os, “-ous”, adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æn?d??d??.?n.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æn?d??d??.?n.?s/
• Rhymes: -?d??n?s

Adjective

androgynous (comparative more androgynous, superlative most androgynous)

1. Possessing the sex organs of both sexes. [from the earlier 17th c.]
2. Pertaining to a feature or characteristic that is not definitively of either sex.

3. Possessing qualities of both sexes.
   • September 1, 1832, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table-Talk

     The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous.

4. (of a connector or docking port) Able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting to solely male or solely female connectors or ports.

Synonyms

• epicene; hermaphrodite (sometimes proscribed)

Related terms

• androgyne
• androgyny

Translations

See also

• genderqueer
• gender bender
• hermaphroditic
• intersex
• shehe