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- Hebrew · borrowed fromמְצִיצָה“suction”
- English todaymetzitza
Borrowed from Hebrew מְצִיצָה (m'tsitsá, “suction”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
metzitza
Today it means: a procedure performed in Rabbinic Judaism after the Jewish ritual of brit milah (covenent cut) following the two added steps of priya (uncovering) and circumcision (circle-cut) mandated by the Gelmud in 500 CE: in this 3rd extra step a mohel uses his mouth to suck blood from the penis of the male (usually a baby) he just uncovered and circumcised, drawing the blood from the wound where the prepuce (foreskin) was amputated. Full definition →
Hebrew מְצִיצָה