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mukhannathun

mukhannathun is the plural of mukhannath.

Meaning of mukhannath

Noun

mukhannath (plural mukhannaths or mukhannathun)

  1. (historical) An effeminate man in the early Arab world; sometimes a performer of music or dance, etc.
  2. (broadly) The receptive partner in homosexual activity.

Questions about mukhannathun

What is mukhannathun the plural of?
Mukhannathun is the plural of mukhannath.

Words near mukhannathun in the dictionary

  1. Mukha
  2. mukhabarat
  3. mukhabarats
  4. mukhannath
  5. mukhannaths
  6. mukhannathun
  7. Mukherjee
  8. Mukherjees
  9. mukhinite
  10. mukhiya
  11. mukhiyas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mukhannathun (page history and authors); mukhannath (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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