male circumcision

English

Noun

male circumcision (countable and uncountable, plural male circumcisions)

1. An operation involving the surgical removal of all or most of the foreskin (prepuce) and frenulum of the male genitalia.

Synonyms

• posthectomy (medical)

Hypernyms

• circumcision
• male genital cutting, sometimes included under male genital mutilation (or MGM)
• male genital mutilator

Coordinate terms

• female circumcision

Related terms

• circumcise

Translations

removal of the foreskin

• Bengali: মোসলমানী (mosôlmanī), খ​ৎনা (kho​tna), সুন্নৎ (śunnot), সুন্নত (bn) (śunnot)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包皮環切術／包皮环切术 (zh) (bāopí huánqiēshù), 割包皮 (zh) (gēbāopí), 割禮／割礼 (zh) (gēlǐ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ympärileikkaus (fi)
• German: Beschneidung des männlichen Genitals f, männliche Beschneidung f, Zirkumzision f, Vorhautbeschneidung f, Beschneidung des Mannes f, Beschneidung männlicher Genitalien f
• Hungarian: körülmetélés (hu)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 割礼 (ja) (katsurei)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: circumcisio
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: circuncisión masculina f
• Turkish: sünnet (tr)