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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:01:28 +0500
From: "Sameeta Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: SPECTRE@mikrolisten.de
Subject: Word from Urdu language
Here is an entry from Pakistan in the Urdu language:
"HUMZUN"= feminist.
(there has been no one word for feminist in the Urdu language before;
the English word was used instead. I have come up with this one:
'Hum' means 'same', 'with', ('homo')[derived from Persian; and 'Zun'
is a word for woman [also derived from Persian]. The connecting of
these two creates a symbiosis that connotes solidarity between women
and with women, reagardless of one's gender.
Sameeta Ahmed
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