The public humiliation leads to severe depression, anxiety, and in extreme cases, self-harm or suicide.

The term is borrowed from Arabic slang, where it originally referred to a ragged or torn piece of cloth before evolving into a vulgar metaphor.

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The word sharmuuto translates directly to "prostitute" or "whore." Linguists generally track its origins back to Arabic loanwords (specifically from variants of sharmuta ), which integrated into the Somali lexicon over centuries of trade, religious exchange, and geographical proximity to the Arabian Peninsula.