Bacha posh (Arabic: باشا بوش, romanized: basha bewsh; Arabic pronunciation: [baːʃaː bwʃ], Urdu: بچہ پوش, Persian: بچه‌پوشی, romanized: becheh‌pewesha; literally "dressed up as a boy") an Afghan tradition in which some families without sons will pick a daughter to live and behave as a boy.