Gender Terminology Booklet

Sesotho sa Leboa Tshiven ḓ a

English

Definitions

Xitsonga

378 shelter

A place that helps individual escape the instances of domestic violence and intimate partner violence and act as a place for protection. A person bringing up a child or children without a partner.

botšhabelo

vhukhudo vhudzumbamo

vutumbelo

379 single parent

motswadinoši

mubebiwoga mubebimu ḓ iimisi mu ḓ ifaratshifu makadzi mu ḓ ifaratshisadzi ndinganelo ya matshilisano

mutswarin’we

380 sissy

A person regarded as effeminate or cowardly.

moitshwarasesa di

mutikhomaxisati

381 social equality State of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in certain

tekatekano go tša leago

ndzingano wa vaaki

respects, including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights and equal access to certain social goods and services.

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