gender.
gender:
Meaning & usage
gender: sex (a category, either male or female, into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species)
gender: identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis
Where this word comes from
Internationalism, unadapted borrowing from English gender, from Middle English gendre, gender (see also gendres), from Middle French gendre, genre, from Latin genus (“kind, sort”). Doublet of genus, genre, and jenis.
a Javanese gamelan instrument
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦼꦤ꧀ꦢꦺꦂ (gendèr), from Old Javanese gĕnder.
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