English
Etymology
castrate + -ion
Pronunciation
Noun
castration (countable and uncountable, plural castrations)
- The act of removing the testicles.
- (figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
Derived terms
Translations
act of removing the testicles
- Arabic: إِخْصَاء m (ʔiḵṣāʔ)
- Bulgarian: кастра́ция f (kastrácija), скопяване n (skopjavane)
- Catalan: castració f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 宮刑/宫刑 (zh) (gōngxíng), 宫刑 (zh) (gōngxíng), 去勢/去势 (zh) (qùshì), 去势 (zh) (qùshì), 閹割/阉割 (zh) (yāngē), 阉割 (zh) (yāngē)
- Czech: kastrace (cs) f
- Danish: kastrering c, kastration (da) c
- Dutch: castratie (nl) f
- Finnish: kastraatio (fi), kastrointi (fi), kuohinta (fi), kuohiminen (fi)
- French: castration (fr) f
- German: Kastrierung f, Hodenentfernung f
- Greek: ευνουχισμός (el) m (evnouchismós)
- Hebrew: סירוס m (sirus')
- Indonesian: pengebirian (id)
- Italian: castrazione (it) f
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- Japanese: 去勢 (ja) (kyosei), 宮刑 (kyūkei)
- Korean: 거세 (geose) (去勢 (ko))
- Latvian: kastrācija f, kastrēšana f
- Malay: pengasian, pengembirian
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kastrasjon m, kastrering m or f
- Nynorsk: kastrasjon m, kastrering f
- Portuguese: castração (pt) f
- Russian: кастра́ция (ru) f (kastrácija)
- Scottish Gaelic: spothadh m
- Spanish: castración (es) f
- Swedish: kastrering c
- Vietnamese: sự thiến (vi)
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figurative: removal of power
See also
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Noun
castration f (plural castrations)
- castration