falaka

• falaqa

From Arabic فَلَقَة (falaqa).

falaka (usually uncountable, plural falakas)

1. A torture method consisting of whipping a person's bare feet.
   • 1995, Kate Millett, The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment:

     Although technically forbidden, the torture of prisoners through falaka, beating on the soles of the feet or the back of the legs, is very widely practiced in Iran.

• kafala

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falaka

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From Ottoman Turkish فلقه (falaka), from Arabic فَلَقَة (falaqa).

falaka (definite accusative falakayı, plural falakalar)

1. birch rod, bastinado

• “falaka”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu