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Local terms for the procedure include tahara in Egypt ; tahur in Sudan ; and bolokoli in Mali, which Anika Rahman and Nahid Toubia write are words synonymous with purification.

Several countries refer to Type 1 FGM as sunna circumcision.

It is also known as kakia, and in Sierra Leone as bundu, after the Bundu secret society.

Type III FGM ( infibulation ) is known as " pharaonic circumcision " in Sudan, and as " Sudanese circumcision " in Egypt.

Urologist Jean Fourcroy writes that women in countries that practise FGM call it one of the " three feminine sorrows ": the first sorrow is the procedure itself, followed by the wedding night when a woman with Type III has to be cut open, then childbirth when she has to be cut again.