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Etymology
female + circumcision
Noun
female circumcision (countable and uncountable , plural female circumcisions )
( medicine , sciences ) The removal of the clitoral hood , the female prepuce cognate to the foreskin removed in the male equivalent.
( sometimes proscribed , possibly dated ) Any operation involving removal of any of various parts of the female external genital organs including and in addition to the hood, such as the clitoris or labia ; regarded as mutilation in many societies. [from 17th c.]
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operation involving removal of any of various parts of the female external genital organs
Arabic: خِتَان اَلْإِنَاث m ( ḵitān al-ʔināṯ )
Bulgarian: обря́зване (bg) n ( obrjázvane )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 女性生殖器切割 ( nǚxìng shēngzhíqì qiēgē )
Czech: ženská obřízka f
Danish: kvindelig omskæring
Finnish: naisten ympärileikkaus
French: excision (fr) f
German: weibliche Genitalverstümmelung f , weibliche Genitalbeschneidung , Beschneidung des weiblichen Genitals f , Beschneidung der Frau f , Klitorisbeschneidung f , Beschneidung weiblicher Genitalien f
Greek: γυναικεία περιτομή f ( gynaikeía peritomí )
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: körülmetélés (hu)
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Icelandic: umskurður m
Japanese: 女性器切除 ( じょせいきせつじょ, joseiki setsujo ) , 女子割礼 ( じょしかつれい, joshi katsurei ) , FGM ( FGM )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: xetenekirin
Ottoman Turkish: اختفاض
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: klitoridektomia (pl) f , obrzezanie kobiet n
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: clitoridotomie f , clitoridectomie f , circumcizie feminină f
Russian: же́нское обреза́ние n ( žénskoje obrezánije )
Spanish: circuncisión femenina f , ablación del clítoris f
Swedish: könsstympning (sv) c
Turkish: sünnet (tr) , kadın sünneti