female circumcision

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Etymology

From female +‎ circumcision.

Noun

female circumcision (countable and uncountable, plural female circumcisions)

1. The removal of the clitoral hood, the female prepuce cognate to the foreskin removed in the male equivalent.
   • Phimosis of the prepuce of the clitoris: indication for female circumcision by D G McLintock in J R Soc Med. 1985 March; 78(3): 257–258
2. (often proscribed) Any operation involving removal of any of various parts of the vulva including and in addition to the hood, such as the clitoris or labia. [from 17th c.]

Usage notes

Female circumcision, when performed without medical necessity (e.g., routinely or religiously), is widely recognized as a form of genital mutilation.

Hypernyms

• circumcision
• female genital cutting, sometimes included under female genital mutilation (abbreviated as FGM)

Coordinate terms

• male circumcision

Related terms

• infibulation

Translations

operation involving removal of any of various parts of the female external genital organs

Arabic: خِتَان اَلْإِنَاث m (ḵitān al-ʔināṯ), خفض f 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) Hawaiian: okipoepoe wahine Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: körülmetélés (hu) 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: circuncisão feminina (pt) Romanian: clitoridotomie f, clitoridectomie f, circumcizie feminină f Russian: же́нское обреза́ние n (žénskoje obrezánije) Spanish: circuncisión femenina f, ablación del clítoris f Swedish: kvinnlig omskärelse c, könsstympning (sv) c Turkish: sünnet (tr), kadın sünneti Yiddish: מילה נקבֿה (mile nekeyve)