In Punjabi language:
Kudimaar: (noun) one who kills a girl
kudi: (noun) girl/daughter;
maar: (verb) to kill, to hurt ; (noun) one who kills, killer of (when used as a suffix) e.g. haathimaar (killer of elephants)
Kudimaari: (noun) the act of killing a girl, female-infanticide (adapted from Kudimaar)
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Kudimaari, in Punjabi, means the act of killing a girl-child: Female infanticide/feticide. This blog is my attempt to understand and combat female feticide occurring in the Punjabi community. News articles, poems, opinion pieces, videos, debates, book reviews, links to other resources constitute the milieu of this blog. The aim is twofold: to inform and to persuade.
[...] boycott of those businesses (hospitals and ultrasound clinics are businesses) that practice or abet kudimaari will be a good example of free-market [...]
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