Etymology

bacha bazi

Today it means: A pederastic practice in Afghanistan and in historical Turkestan, in which men exploit and enslave adolescent boys for sexual abuse and/or cross-dressing. Full definition →

Persian بچه بازی
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The story

  1. Persian · borrowed fromبچه بازی
  2. English todaybacha bazi

Persian بچه بازی (literally “boy play”)

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.