Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see お, 鍋. · butch; dyke; or, a trans man · (nickname for) a maidservant
köken: From 御(お) (o-, honorific) + 鍋(なべ) (nabe, “stew pot”). The LGBT slang sense is by analogy to おかま (okama), literally “rice pot”, a slang term for gay or feminine men. The “maidservant” sense comes from association between maids and cooking or serving food.
lesbian (pertaining to female homosexuality) · Lesbian (concerning the Greek island of Lesbos and the Ancient Greek dialect of this island)
Norveççelesbe, lesbisk, traktorlesbe
Etimoloji
Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Breton gouin, from Middle Breton gouhin, from Proto-Brythonic *gwėɣin (“sheath”), itself borrowed from Latin vāgīna (“vagina”); in which case, a doublet of gaine (“sheath”) and vagin (“vagina”).