bisexual

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• Received-Pronunciation: /baɪˈsɛk.ʃʊ.əl/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /baɪˈsɛk.ʃ(ʊ)l/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-sjʊ(ə)l/
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• General-American: /baɪˈsɛk.ʃ(əw).əl/
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• rhymes with -ɛkʃuəl
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From bi- + -sexual, via the French bisexuel (bi-, sexuel). Attested since 1792 as a synonym in botany for "hermaphroditic" ("having male and female parts"). First used of sexuality in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 1886 Psychopathia Sexualis (in German) and Charles Gilbert Chaddock's 1892 English translation thereof, due to the theory that people were naturally attracted to the opposite sex and so the brain or mind of a person attracted to "both" sexes (or to the same sex) must be partly of another sex and thus "hermaphroditic".

174 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: i dygjinishëm — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Arabic: مزدوج الميل الجنسي — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Armenian: երկսեռական (erkseṙakan) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Azerbaijani: ikicinsli — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Bengali: উভকামী (ubhôkami) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Bulgarian: би́сексуа́лен (bíseksuálen) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Catalan: bisexual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Chinese Cantonese: 雙性戀 /双性恋 (soeng1 sing3 lyun2) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Chinese Cantonese: 兩性 /两性 — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Chinese Mandarin: 雙性戀的 /双性恋的 (shuāngxìngliàn de) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Czech: bisexuální — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Dutch: biseksueel — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Esperanto: ambaŭseksema — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Estonian: biseksuaalne — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Faroese: tvíkyndur — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Finnish: biseksuaalinen — sexually attracted to both men and women
• French: bisexuel — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Galician: bisexual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Georgian: ბისექსუალი (biseksuali) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• German: bisexuell — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Greek: αμφιφυλόφιλος (amfifylófilos) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Haitian Creole: biseksyèl — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Hebrew: דּוּ מִינִי (du miní) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Hebrew: ביסקסואלי (biseksuáli) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Hindi: उभयलैंगिक (ubhaylaiṅgik) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Hindi: उभयलिंगी (ubhayliṅgī) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Hungarian: biszexuális — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Icelandic: tvíkynhneigður — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Icelandic: tvíkynhneigð — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Icelandic: tvíkynhneigt — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Ido: bisexuala — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Indonesian: biseksual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Interlingua: bisexual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Irish: déghnéasach — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Italian: bisessuale — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Japanese: 両性愛の (ryōseiai no) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Japanese: バイセクシュアルな (baisekushuaru na) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Korean: 양성애 (yangseong'ae) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Latin: bisexuālis — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Malay: dwijantina — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Malay: dwiseks — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Malay: dwiseksual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Malay: biseks — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Malay: biseksual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Maltese: bisesswali — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Māori: hōkakarua — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Marathi: उभयलैंगिक (ubhaylaiṅgik) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Norman: bisexuel — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Norwegian: bifil — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Occitan: bisexual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Occitan: bisexuala — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Persian: دوجنسگرا (do-jens-garâ) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Polish: biseksualny — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Portuguese: bissexual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Romanian: bisexual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Russian: бисексуа́льный (bisɛksuálʹnyj) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghnèitheach — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-mhiannach — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-sheòrsach — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Serbo-Croatian: би̏сексуа̄лан — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Serbo-Croatian: bȉseksuālan — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Slovak: bisexuálny — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Spanish: bisexual — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Swedish: bisexuell — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Tagalog: silahis — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Tajik: дуҷинсгаро (dujinsgaro) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Turkish: biseksüel — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Ukrainian: бісексуа́льний (biseksuálʹnyj) — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Welsh: deurywiol — sexually attracted to both men and women
• Arabic: زهرة خنثى — botany: having both male and female organs
• Belarusian: двухпо́лы (dvuxpóly) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Bulgarian: двупо́лов (dvupólov) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Chinese Mandarin: 兩性的 /两性的 (liǎngxìng de) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Chinese Mandarin: 雙性的 /双性的 (shuāngxìng de) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Dutch: tweeslachtig — botany: having both male and female organs
• Faroese: tvíkynjaður — botany: having both male and female organs
• Finnish: kaksineuvoinen — botany: having both male and female organs
• French: bisexué — botany: having both male and female organs
• German: bisexuell — botany: having both male and female organs
• German: zweigeschlechtig — botany: having both male and female organs
• German: zweigeschlechtlich — botany: having both male and female organs
• Hebrew: דּוּ מִינִי (du miní) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Icelandic: tvíkynja — botany: having both male and female organs
• Ido: bisexua — botany: having both male and female organs
• Irish: déghnéasach — botany: having both male and female organs
• Italian: bisessuale — botany: having both male and female organs
• Italian: ermafrodita — botany: having both male and female organs
• Japanese: 両性的な (ryōseiteki na) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Japanese: 両性の (ryōsei no) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Korean: 양성의 (yangseong-ui) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Korean: 량성의 (ryangseong-ui) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Malay: dwijantina — botany: having both male and female organs
• Malay: dwiseks — botany: having both male and female organs
• Malay: dwiseksual — botany: having both male and female organs
• Malay: biseks — botany: having both male and female organs
• Malay: biseksual — botany: having both male and female organs
• Maltese: bisesswali — botany: having both male and female organs
• Maltese: mara-raġel — botany: having both male and female organs
• Polish: biseksualny — botany: having both male and female organs
• Polish: dwupłciowy — botany: having both male and female organs
• Portuguese: bissexuado — botany: having both male and female organs
• Romanian: bisexuat — botany: having both male and female organs
• Russian: двупо́лый (dvupólyj) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Slovak: obojpohlavný — botany: having both male and female organs
• Swedish: tvåkönad — botany: having both male and female organs
• Tagalog: duhansariin — botany: having both male and female organs
• Ukrainian: двостате́вий (dvostatévyj) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Ukrainian: гермафроди́тний (hermafrodýtnyj) — botany: having both male and female organs
• Armenian: երկսեռական (erkseṙakan) — bisexual person
• Catalan: bisexual — bisexual person
• Chinese Mandarin: 雙性戀者 /双性恋者 (shuāngxìngliànzhě) — bisexual person
• Czech: bisexuál — bisexual person
• Dutch: biseksueel — bisexual person
• Esperanto: ambaŭseksemulo — bisexual person
• Esperanto: ambaŭseksemuliĉo — bisexual person
• Esperanto: ambaŭseksemulino — bisexual person
• Estonian: biseksuaal — bisexual person
• Estonian: bi — bisexual person
• Faroese: tvíkyndur — bisexual person
• Faroese: tvíkynd — bisexual person
• Finnish: biseksuaali — bisexual person
• Finnish: bi — bisexual person
• French: bisexuel — bisexual person
• French: bisexuelle — bisexual person
• Galician: bisexual — bisexual person
• German: Bisexuelle — bisexual person
• German: Bisexueller — bisexual person
• Greek: αμφιφυλόφιλος (amfifylófilos) — bisexual person
• Greek: αμφιφυλόφιλη (amfifylófili) — bisexual person
• Ancient Greek: ἡμιλάσταυρος (hēmilástauros) — bisexual person
• Greenlandic: angutinik arnanillu atoqateqartartoq — bisexual person
• Hebrew: ביסקסואלי — bisexual person
• Ido: bisexualo — bisexual person
• Ido: bisexualulo — bisexual person
• Ido: bisexualino — bisexual person
• Indonesian: biseksual — bisexual person
• Interlingua: bisexual — bisexual person
• Italian: bisessuale — bisexual person
• Italian: bisex — bisexual person
• Japanese: 両性愛者 (ryōseiaisha) — bisexual person
• Japanese: バイセクシュアル (baisekushuaru) — bisexual person
• Māori: takatāpui kaharua — bisexual person
• Norman: bisexuel — bisexual person
• Norman: bisexuelle — bisexual person
• Persian: دوجنسگرا (do-jens-garâ) — bisexual person
• Polish: biseksualista — bisexual person
• Polish: biseksualistka — bisexual person
• Polish: biseks — bisexual person
• Portuguese: bissexual — bisexual person
• Portuguese: bi — bisexual person
• Romanian: bisexual — bisexual person
• Romanian: bisexuală — bisexual person
• Russian: бисексуа́л (bisɛksuál) — bisexual person
• Russian: бисексуа́лка (bisɛksuálka) — bisexual person
• Inari-Sami: biseksual — bisexual person
• Northern Sami: bifiila — bisexual person
• Northern Sami: biseksuála — bisexual person
• Skolt-Sami: biseksuaal — bisexual person
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-ghnèitheach — bisexual person
• Scottish Gaelic: dà-sheòrsach — bisexual person
• Slovak: bisexuál — bisexual person
• Slovak: bisexuálka — bisexual person
• Spanish: bisexual — bisexual person
• Swedish: bi — bisexual person
• Swedish: bisexuell — bisexual person
• Tagalog: silahis — bisexual person
• Tajik: дуҷинсгаро (dujinsgaro) — bisexual person
• Tamil: ஈரர் (īrar) — bisexual person
• Tamil: மிடையீரர் (miṭaiyīrar) — bisexual person
• Thai: ชอบทั้งสองเพศ — bisexual person
• Thai: เสือไบ — bisexual person
• Turkish: biseksüel — bisexual person
• Ukrainian: бісексуа́л (biseksuál) — bisexual person
• Ukrainian: бісексуа́лка (biseksuálka) — bisexual person