female circumcision

Etymology
female + circumcision

Noun

 * 1)  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).
 * 2) * 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
 * 3)  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 (a form of female genital mutilation when done without medical justification).

Hypernyms

 * , sometimes included under female genital mutilation (abbreviated as FGM)
 * , sometimes included under female genital mutilation (abbreviated as FGM)

Translations

 * Arabic: خِتَان اَلْإِنَاث, خفض
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 女性生殖器切割
 * Czech: ženská obřízka
 * Danish: kvindelig omskæring
 * Finnish: naisten ympärileikkaus
 * French:
 * German: weibliche Genitalverstümmelung, weibliche Genitalbeschneidung, Beschneidung des weiblichen Genitals, Beschneidung der Frau, Klitorisbeschneidung, Beschneidung weiblicher Genitalien
 * Greek: γυναικεία περιτομή
 * Hawaiian: okipoepoe wahine
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: umskurður
 * Japanese: 女性器切除, 女子割礼, FGM
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: xetenekirin
 * Ottoman Turkish: اختفاض
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, obrzezanie kobiet
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: clitoridotomie, clitoridectomie, circumcizie feminină
 * Russian: же́нское обреза́ние
 * Spanish: circuncisión femenina, ablación del clítoris
 * Swedish: kvinnlig omskärelse,
 * Turkish:, kadın sünneti
 * Yiddish: מילה נקבֿה