mutilation

English

Etymology

Latin mutilatio; compare French mutilation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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Noun

mutilation (countable and uncountable, plural mutilations)

1. The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.
   • 2015 December 23, “Indian women who are fighting to stop genital mutilation”, in BBC‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2025:

     The cruel practice of female genital mutilation is banned in many countries globally, but it remains widespread among the Bohras - a small Muslim community in India. Now, some Bohra women have started a campaign demanding an end to the ritual, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi.

Hyponyms

• female genital mutilation
• male genital mutilation

Derived terms

• genital mutilation
• self-mutilation

Translations

act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated

• Bulgarian: осакатяване n (osakatjavane)
• Catalan: mutilació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殘毀 / 残毁 (zh) (cánhuǐ), 殘割 / 残割 (cángē)

• Dutch: verminking (nl) f
• Finnish: silpominen, pahoinpitely (fi)
• French: mutilation (fr) f
• German: Verstümmelung (de)
• Hungarian: csonkítás (hu)
• Indonesian: mutilasi (id)
• Italian: mutilazione (it) f
• Japanese: 切断 (ja) (setsudan), 不具 (ja) (fugu), 骨抜き (ja) (honenuki)
• Kazakh: мертігу (mertigüw)
• Portuguese: mutilação (pt) f
• Romanian: csonkítás, mutilare (ro)
• Russian: уве́чье (ru) n (uvéčʹje)
• Spanish: mutilación (es) f
• Swedish: stympning (sv) c
• Turkish: sakatlama (tr)

See also

• body modification

Anagrams

• ultimation

French

Etymology

From Latin mutilātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ti.la.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

mutilation f (plural mutilations)

1. mutilation

Related terms

• mutiler

Further reading

• “mutilation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012