zenana

Meanings

1. Synonym of harem (“area of house or palace for high-caste women or wives of a wealthy man; the women thus kept; the system of segregating women in this way”).
2. Synonym of sissy (“effeminate man”).
3. Synonym of bottom (“passive partner in male homosexual sex”), especially an effeminate one.
4. Synonym of trans woman.

Etymology

From Hindi ज़नाना (zanānā), Urdu زنانه (zanānah), from Classical Persian زنانه (zanāna, “womanly”), from زن (zan, “woman”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman”). More at quean.