ashtime

English

Noun

ashtime (plural ashtime)

1. Among the Maale people of Ethiopia, a male transvestite serving in the king's court, regarded as a third gender.
   • 1999, Donald L. Donham, History, Power, Ideology, page 106:

     There were, as I have pointed out, three genders in traditional Maale: atinke, lali, and ashtime. Male, female, and transvestite.

References

• Anthropologica, volume 48, number 2, 2006, page 196