ejaculation

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Etymology

From ejaculate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• IPA: /iˌdʒækjuˈleɪʃən/

Noun

ejaculation (plural ejaculations)

1. The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
2. The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XVI:

     She gaped at us dumbly for perhaps five seconds, then uttered an ejaculation, far from suitable to mixed company, which she had no doubt picked up from fellow-Nimrods in her hunting days.

3. The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.
4. (biology) The forcible ejection of semen from the mammalian urethra, a reflex in response to sexual stimulation.

Translations

ejection of semen through the urethra

• Albanian: ejakulacion (sq) m
• Arabic: قذف (ar) (qadhf) m
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: սերմնաժայթքում (hy) (sermnažayt’k’um)
• Asturian: eyaculación (ast) f
• Azeri: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: isurtze (eu)
• Bengali: বীর্যস্খলন (bn), বীর্যপাত (bn)
• Bulgarian: еякулация (bg) (ejakulacija) f
• Catalan: ejaculació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 射精 (se6 zing1)

  Mandarin: 射精 (cmn) (shèjīng), 射出 (cmn) (shèchū)

• Czech: ejakulace (cs) f
• Danish: udløsning (da), ejakulation (da)
• Dutch: ejaculatie (nl)
• Esperanto: ejakulo (eo)
• Finnish: siemensyöksy (fi), ejakulaatio (fi)
• French: éjaculation (fr) f
• Galician: exaculación (gl) f
• Georgian: გამოყოფა (ka) (gamoqop'a)
• German: Ejakulation (de) f, Samenerguss (de) m
• Greek: εκσπερμάτιση (el) (ekspermátisi) f
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: שְׁפִיכָה (he) (shfikha) f
• Hindi: स्खलन (hi) (skhalan)
• Hungarian: magömlés (hu), ejakuláció (hu)
• Icelandic: sáðlát (is) n
• Interlingua: ejaculation (ia)
• Irish: seadadh (ga) m

• Italian: eiaculazione (it) f
• Japanese: 射精 (ja) (shasei)
• Korean: 射精 (ko) (sajeong)
• Latvian: ejakulācija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: ejakuliacija (lt) f
• Malay: pemancutan (ms), ejakulasi (ms)
• Maltese: eġakulazzjoni (mt) f, ejakulazzjoni (mt) f
• Norwegian: ejakulasjon (no)
• Persian: انزال (fa) (enzâl)
• Polish: wytrysk (pl) m, ejakulacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: ejaculação (pt) f
• Romanian: ejaculare (ro) f, ejaculație (ro) f
• Russian: эякуляция (ru) (ejakuljácija) f, семяизвержение (ru) (semjaizveržénije) n
• Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ејакула́ција (sh) f

  Roman: ejakulácija (sh) f

• Slovak: ejakulácia (sk) f
• Slovene: ejakulácija (sl) f
• Spanish: eyaculación (es) f
• Swedish: ejakulation (sv), utlösning (sv), sädesuttömning (sv)
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: விந்து தள்ளல் (ta)
• Telugu: దఢాలున (te) గభాలున (te) గబుక్కున (te)
• Thai: การหลั่งน้ำอสุจิ (th) (gaan-làng náam à-sòo-jì)
• Turkish: boşalma (tr), ejakülasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: сім'явиверження (uk) (sim"javiveržennja), еякуляція (uk) (ejakuljacija)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: xuất tinh (vi)