khafd

English

Etymology

From Arabic خَفْض (ḵafḍ).

Noun

khafd (uncountable)

  1. (Arabic) female genital mutilation
    • 2022 March 8, Mariam Ibraheem, Eugene Bach, Shackled: One Woman's Dramatic Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence‎[1], Whitaker House, →ISBN:
      "Khafd is a ceremony that will make you clean in the eyes of islam by circumcising your vagina," she explained. “I told the officials we are Christian,” she continued, “but it wasn't enough to dissuade the magistrate from requiring that you be circumcised."
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