massage

See also: Massage

English

Etymology

From French massage (noun), from masser (“to massage”) (borrowed around the end of the 18th century from Arabic مَسَّ (massa, “feel, touch”), or from Portuguese amassar) + -age. Cognate to German massieren.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæsɑː(d)ʒ/, /məˈsɑː(d)ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈsɑ(d)ʒ/

Noun

massage (countable and uncountable, plural massages)

1. The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.

   Having a massage can have many beneficial effects.

   • 2014, Gary Vitacco-Robles, Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume 2 1956-1962 AND Beyond:

     During the long lapses in work common with on-location productions, Marilyn would silently meditate as Roberts provided a shoulder massage.

2. The action of rubbing or kneading anything.

   The baker gave the dough one final massage.

Hyponyms

• Thai massage
• See also Thesaurus:therapy

Derived terms

• African massage
• automassage
• baby massage
• blind massage
• body-to-body massage
• electromassage
• heart massage
• hydromassage
• infant massage
• lingam massage
• massageable
• massage chair
• massage gun
• massagelike
• massage parlour, massage parlor
• massager
• massage table
• massage therapist
• massage therapy
• massagist
• massotherapy
• nonmassage
• otomassage
• pneumomassage
• prostate massage
• remassage
• self-massage
• sexy massage
• stone massage
• Swedish massage
• vibromassage
• yoni massage

Related terms

• masseur, masseuse

Translations

rubbing, kneading, or hitting muscled part of a body

• Albanian: ndrys (sq) m, ngjesh (sq), masazh (sq) m, fërkim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَدْلِيك m (tadlīk), تَمْسِيد m (tamsīd), مَسَاج m (masāj)

  Hijazi Arabic: مَسَاج m (masāj)

• Armenian: մերսում (hy) (mersum)
• Asturian: masaxe m
• Azerbaijani: masaj
• Belarusian: маса́ж m (masáž)
• Bengali: ম্যাসেজ (mêśej)
• Bulgarian: маса́ж (bg) m (masáž)
• Burmese: အနှိပ် (my) (a.hnip)
• Catalan: massatge m
• Cherokee: ᎦᏅᎦᎸᏗ (ganvgalvdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 按摩 (on³ mo¹)

  Mandarin: 按摩 (zh) (ànmó), 馬殺雞 / 马杀鸡 (zh) (mǎshājī) (slang, humorous)

• Czech: masáž (cs) f
• Danish: massage (da) c
• Dutch: massage (nl) f
• Esperanto: masaĝo
• Estonian: masseerimine, massaaž (et)
• Faroese: vøddamýking f
• Finnish: hieronta (fi)
• French: massage (fr) m
• Galician: masaxe f, freta f
• Georgian: მასაჟი (masaži)
• German: Massage (de) f
• Greek: μάλαξη (el) f (málaxi), μασάζ (el) n (masáz)

  Ancient Greek: μάλαξις f (málaxis)

• Hebrew: עִסוּי / עיסוי m (isúy)
• Hindi: मालिश (hi) f (māliś), अंगमर्दन (hi) m (aṅgmardan), मसाज ? (masāj)
• Hungarian: masszázs (hu)
• Icelandic: nudd n
• Indonesian: pijat (id), urut (id)
• Irish: suathaireacht f
• Italian: massaggio (it) m
• Japanese: マッサージ (ja) (massāji), 按摩 (ja) (あんま, anma)
• Kazakh: массаж (massaj)
• Khmer: ការគក់ច្របាច់ (kaa kŭək crɑbac), ម៉ាស្សា (maahsaa), សម្ពាហកម្ម (sɑmpiəhaʼkam)
• Korean: 마사지 (ko) (masaji), 안마(按摩) (ko) (anma)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gemirandin (ku) f, perixandin (ku) f, mistdan (ku) f, masaj (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: массаж (massaj)
• Lao: ສັມພາຫະ (sam phā ha)
• Latin: frictio (la) f
• Latvian: masāža f
• Lithuanian: masažas m
• Macedonian: маса́жа f (masáža), тр́лање n (tŕlanje)
• Malagasy: manotra (mg)
• Malay: urut (ms)
• Maltese: massaġġi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: иллэг (mn) (illeg), массаж (massaž)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: massasje m

  Nynorsk: massasje m

• Pashto: مساژ m (masāž), مالش m (māleš), چاپي (ps) m (čāрi), مساج m (masāj)
• Persian:

  Dari: چَاپِی (čāpī)

  Iranian Persian: ماساژ (fa) (mâsâž)

• Polish: masaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: massagem (pt) f
• Romanian: masaj (ro) n, masare (ro) f
• Russian: масса́ж (ru) m (massáž)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: маса́жа f

  Latin: masáža (sh) f

• Slovak: masáž m
• Slovene: masaža f
• Spanish: masaje (es) m
• Swedish: massage (sv) c
• Tajik: массаж (massaž), молиш (tg) (moliš)
• Telugu: మర్దనము (te) (mardanamu)
• Thai: การนวด (th) (gaan-nûuat)
• Turkish: masaj (tr)
• Turkmen: massaž
• Ukrainian: маса́ж (uk) m (masáž)
• Urdu: مالِش f (māliś), مَساج ? (masāj)
• Uyghur: ماساژ (masazh)
• Uzbek: massaj (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự xoa bóp, sự đấm bóp (vi)
• Welsh: tylino (cy) m
• Yiddish: מאַסאַזש m (masazh)

Verb

massage (third-person singular simple present massages, present participle massaging, simple past and past participle massaged)

1. (transitive) To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).

   My neck doesn't hurt as much as it did last night since my wife massaged me after I got back from the concert.

   • 2010 January 11, Julian Kaye, Massage Therapy‎^[1]:

     So after massaging a nude woman while being nude or nearly nude myself, sex is a natural way to end things.

2. (transitive) To rub or knead anything.

   Massage the kale to soften it before making the salad.

3. (transitive) To manipulate (data, a document etc.) to make it more presentable or more convenient to work with.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 118:

     News relating to public disturbances was systematically massaged [...].

   • 2008 May 22, Patrick Wintour, Steven Morris, The Guardian, page 3:

     The Conservatives have massaged expectations down by saying they would be delighted with a majority of 1,000 […]

4. (transitive) To falsify (data or accounts).

Derived terms

• massage someone's ego
• massagingly
• nonmassaged
• remassage
• unmassaged

Descendants

• → Japanese: マッサージ (massāji)
  • → Chinese: 馬殺雞 / 马杀鸡 (mǎshājī)

Translations

to perform a massage on somebody

• Arabic: دَلَّكَ (dallaka), مَسَّدَ (massada)
• Bulgarian: масажирам (bg) (masažiram)
• Cebuano: hilot
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 𢱕骨 (dap⁶ gwat¹)

  Mandarin: 按摩 (zh) (ànmó)

• Czech: masírovat (cs)
• Dutch: masseren (nl)
• Esperanto: masaĝi
• Estonian: masseerima
• Finnish: hieroa (fi)
• French: masser (fr)
• Galician: masaxear
• German: massieren (de)
• Greek: μαλάσσω (el) (malásso)
• Hebrew: עיסה (he), עסה (he)
• Hungarian: masszíroz (hu)
• Japanese: マッサージする (ja) (massāji suru)
• Kazakh: уқалау (uqalau)
• Khmer: គក់ច្របាច់ (kŭək crɑbac)
• Korean: 마사지하다 (ko) (masajihada)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: perxandin (ku)

• Lao: ນວດ (nūat)
• Latin: frīcō
• Macedonian: маси́ра (masíra), тр́ла (tŕla)
• Malay: urut (ms)
• Māori: mirimiri, kōmuru, kōmurumuru
• Polish: masować (pl)
• Portuguese: massagear (pt), massajar
• Romanian: masa (ro), a face masaj
• Russian: масси́ровать (ru) impf (massírovatʹ), де́лать масса́ж impf (délatʹ massáž)
• Spanish: masajear (es)
• Swedish: massera (sv)
• Tausug: hilud
• Telugu: మర్దించు (te) (mardiñcu)
• Thai: นวด (th) (nûuat)
• Turkish: masaj yapmak
• Ukrainian: масажува́ти impf (masažuváty), промасажува́ти pf (promasažuváty)
• Vietnamese: xoa bóp, tẩm quất (vi), mát-xa
• Volapük: masetön

to manipulate data or a document

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調整 / 调整 (zh) (tiáozhěng)

• Dutch: manipuleren (nl)
• German: schönen (de)
• Hungarian: kozmetikáz (hu)
• Romanian: manipula (ro)

to falsify data or accounts

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 篡改 (zh) (cuàngǎi)

• Dutch: vervalsen (nl)

Danish

Etymology

From French massage.

Noun

massage c (singular definite massagen, plural indefinite massager)

1. massage
2. (euphemistic) a prostitute's services

   Synonym: intimmassage

Declension

Declension of massage

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	massage	massagen	massager	massagerne
genitive	massages	massagens	massagers	massagernes

Related terms

• massere
• massør, massøse

References

• “massage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From French massage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑˈsaːʒə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mas‧sa‧ge

Noun

massage f (plural massages, diminutive massagetje n)

1. physical massage

Related terms

• masseur m

Descendants

• → Indonesian: masasê
• → Papiamentu: masashi

French

Etymology

From masser +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.saʒ/

Noun

massage m (plural massages)

1. physical massage

Derived terms

• massage cardiaque
• massage coquin

Related terms

• masser
• masseur m, masseuse f

Descendants

• → Arabic: مَسَاج (masāj)
• → Catalan: massatge
• → Czech: masáž
• → Danish: massage
• → Dutch: massage
• → English: massage
  • → Japanese: マッサージ (massāji)
    • → Chinese: 馬殺雞 / 马杀鸡 (mǎshājī)
• → Esperanto: masaĝo
• → Estonian: massaaž
• → German: Massage
• → Greek: μασάζ (masáz) (learned)
• → Italian: massaggio
• → Khmer: ម៉ាស្សា (maahsaa)
• → Macedonian: маса́жа (masáža)
• → Northern Kurdish: masaj
• → Polish: masaż
• → Portuguese: massagem
• → Romanian: masaj
• → Russian: масса́ж (massáž)
  • → Belarusian: маса́ж (masáž)
  • → Mongolian: массаж (massaž)
  • → Uyghur: ماساژ (masazh)
  • → Uzbek: massaj
• → Spanish: masaje
• → Swedish: massage
• → Turkish: masaj
• → Persian: ماساژ (mâsâž)
• → Ukrainian: маса́ж (masáž)

Further reading

• “massage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Swedish

Etymology

From French massage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maˈsɑːɧ/

Noun

massage c

1. massage

Declension

Declension of massage

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	massage	massages
	definite	massagen	massagens
plural	indefinite	massager	massagers
	definite	massagerna	massagernas

Related terms

• massera
• massör, massös

References

• massage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• massage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• massage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)