deriv LSK ETT STT aSTA ALPH OLDHOMEPAGE NEWHOMEPAGE

/napuMsaka / नपुंसक

There are three genders — masculine, feminine and neuter.

With rare exceptions, neuter nounbases mean inanimate things or abstract concepts —

anna- अन्नॱ m "food"
duHkha- दुःखॱ m "pain", "unhappiness", "sorrow".

Conversely said, nounbases that mean living things are m or f almost always.

Nouns that mean inanimate things and abstract concepts can have any of the three genders — there is no fixed rule.

Nounbases meaning living things get m or f gender, even when the sex is unknown or irrelevant. So any bee is a **madhulih- मधुलिह् m "honeylicker" and any fly is a **makSikA- मक्षिकाॱ.

So, three genders there are, yes? Do LGBTQ+ people belong to the neuter gender?

No. Even the see wikipedia on Hijra_(South_Asia) must be referred to as f or as m in correct Sanskrit. The neuter is for things only.