Khanith (also spelled Khaneeth or Xanith; Arabic: خنيث, romanized: khanīth) denotes a person assigned male at birth who uses feminine gender expression, including trans women, men who have sex with men, cisgender or Boudi men perceived as feminine. The term is used in parts of the Arabian Peninsula.

The khanith (plural: makhanith and khunuth) is a term used colloquially in Arabic-speaking coastal societies, most commonly in the current states of United Arab Emirates and Oman. It refers to a marginal identity that transgresses heteronormative and cisnormative pressures in the modern Gulf Arab nation-state.

2023年1月2日 · Khanith/Xanith 英语语境下属于NB的一种，阿拉伯半岛使用这个词指代顺性别为男，但自我认知、衣着行为更像女性的人。

2024年11月25日 · Khanith, Khaneeth, or Xanith is an identity and, in some cases, third gender from Oman culture. It describes an AMAB individual who participates in acts often associated...

Saqer Almarri’s paper “Identities of a Single Root: The Triad of the Khuntha, Mukhannath, and Khanith” analyzes the etymology and use of three Arabic words designating bodies and existences “in the in-betweens and margins of gender, sex, and sexuality, in ways that may be understood at times as non-heteronormative and at other times as ...

Mukhannath (مُخَنَّث; plural mukhannathun (مُخَنَّثون); "effeminate ones", "ones who resemble women") was a term used in Classical Arabic and Islamic literature to describe effeminate men or people with ambiguous sexual characteristics, [6] who appeared feminine and functioned sexually or socially in roles typically carried out by women. [8] .

2024年11月3日 · khanith (plural khaniths or khanith) A person in Oman who was assigned male at birth and who has a feminine gender identity or gender expression, such as a trans woman or a gay man.

Khanith or Khaneeth (خنيث; khanīth) is a vernacular Arabic term used in Oman and the Arabian Peninsula and denotes the gender role ascribed to males who function sexually, and in some ways socially, as women. The word is closely related to the Arabic word mukhannath (مخنث "effeminate"), a Classical Arabic term referring to individuals ...

2023年1月4日 · “The Sohari Khanith ” in Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature (February 1997). Edited by Will Roscoe and Stephen O. Murray. NYU Press. [Uses the spelling “khanith.”]

Xanith, also written as “khanith” is a vernacular Arabic term for both “mukhannath” and “khuntha”. “Mukhannath” refers to individuals with a gender identity that is discordant with their visible sexual organs.