female circumcision

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Etymology

female + circumcision

Noun

female circumcision (countable and uncountable, plural female circumcisions)

1. (medicine, sciences) The removal of the clitoral hood, the female prepuce cognate to the foreskin removed in the male equivalent (a form of female genital mutilation when done without medical justification).
   • 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. (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 (a form of female genital mutilation when done without medical justification). [from 17th c.]

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)