male vs sirrah

male and sirrah both are nouns.

male is an adjective but sirrah is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
male	Yes	Yes	No	No
sirrah	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sirrah is a hyponym of male; that is, sirrah is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than male:

male: a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
sirrah: formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger

Other hyponyms of male include boy wonder, blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad, foster-brother, foster brother, macho, boy, male child, male offspring, man-child, adult male, man, man, man, mother's son, sunbae.

male (noun)	sirrah (noun)
an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)	formerly a contemptuous term of address to an inferior man or boy; often used in anger
a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies

male (adjective)	sirrah (adjective)
being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation
for or pertaining to or composed of men or boys
characteristic of a man

Difference between male and sirrah

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