masturbate

See also: mastúrbate

English

Etymology

From Latin masturbārī. Further derivation uncertain; see masturbor for more.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæstəbeɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæstɚbeɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaːstəbæɪt/
• Hyphenation: mas‧tur‧bate

Verb

masturbate (third-person singular simple present masturbates, present participle masturbating, simple past and past participle masturbated)

1. (intransitive) To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand, sometimes with a partner.
   • 2006, Catherine Purcell, Bruce A. Arrigo, The Psychology of Lust Murder (page 28)

     The primary function of a souvenir fetish is so that the offender can relive the actual event within the context of the fantasy, usually while masturbating to maintain sexual arousal and achieve orgasm (Canter et al., 2004).

   I find this difficult to masturbate to.

2. (transitive, colloquial) To stimulate someone else sexually without penetration of the penis.
3. (informal, derogatory) To stimulate or please oneself by means of anything, not necessarily sexual, that does not get them anywhere; something that wastes their time; something that does not help others or achieve any important goal.

Synonyms

synonyms of masturbate

• bash the bishop
• beat off
• beat the meat
• choke the chicken
• diddle
• fap
• flog the dong
• flick the bean
• have fun with Dick and Jane
• jack it
• jack off
• jerk off
• jill

• jill off
• knock one off
• knock one out
• play with oneself
• polish the pole
• rub one out
• slap the salami
• spank the monkey
• stroke it
• tickle the sausage
• toss off
• wank
• whack off

• See Thesaurus:masturbate

Derived terms

Derived terms

• masturbation
• masturbator

• masturbatory
• mutual masturbation

Translations

to masturbate

• Albanian: masturbohem
• Arabic: اِسْتَمْنَى‎‎ (istamnā), مَارَسَ الْعَادَة السِّرِّيَّة‎‎ (mārasa l-ʿāda s-sirriyya)
• Armenian: մաստուրբացիայով զբաղվել (masturbacʿiayov zbałvel)
• Azerbaijani: onanizm etmək
• Belarusian: мастурбава́ць impf (masturbavácʹ), анані́раваць impf (ananíravacʹ)
• Bengali: হাত মারা (hat mara), হস্তমৈথুন করা (hôstmoithun kôra)
• Bulgarian: мастурби́рам impf, pf (masturbíram), онани́рам impf, pf (onaníram)
• Catalan: masturbar-se (ca)
• Cebuano: lulu, jakol
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 捽咕咕 (zeot1 gu1*4 gu1), 手淫 (zh) (sau2 jam4)

  Mandarin: 手淫 (zh) (shǒuyín), 自慰 (zh) (zìwèi), 打手槍 (zh), 打手枪 (zh) (dǎ shǒuqiāng)

• Czech: masturbovat (cs) impf, onanovat (cs) impf
• Danish: masturbere, onanere
• Dutch: masturberen (nl)
• Esperanto: masturbi
• Estonian: masturbeerima, ennast rahuldama, eneserahuldamisega tegelema
• Faroese: fleyga sær, onanera
• Finnish: tyydyttää itsensä, harjoittaa itsetyydytystä, masturboida (fi), itsetyydyttää
• French: masturber (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: masturbieren (de)
• Greek: αυνανίζομαι (el) (avnanízomai)

  Ancient Greek: ἀναφλάω (anaphláō)

• Hebrew: אוֹנֵן‎‎ (he) (onen)
• Hindi: हस्तमैथुन करना (hastamaithun karnā)
• Hungarian: maszturbál (hu)
• Indonesian: merancap (id), onani (id) (for men only), masturbasi (id)
• Italian: masturbare (it), masturbarsi
• Japanese: オナニーする (ja) (onanī suru), オナる (onaru), マスターベーションする (masutābēshon suru), マスをかく (masu o kaku), シコる (shikoru)
• Khmer: បញ្ឆាច់ (km) (bɑñchac)
• Korean: 자위행위를 하다 (jawihaeng-wireul hada), 수음하다 (sueumhada), 마스터베이션을 하다 (maseuteobeisyeoneul hada), 자위하다 (ko) (jawihada)

• Latin: masturbor
• Latvian: masturbēt
• Lithuanian: masturbuoti
• Macedonian: мастурби́ра impf, pf (masturbíra), онани́ра impf, pf (onaníra)
• Malay: lancap, rancap
• Maori: tītoitoi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: masturbere

  Bokmål: onanere

• Oriya: ମୁଠି ମାରିବା (muṭhi mariba), ହସ୍ତ ମୈଥୁନ (hôstô môithunô)
• Persian: جلق زدن‎‎ (jalq zadan), استمنا کردن‎‎ (estemnâ kardan)
• Polish: masturbować się (pl) impf, onanizować się (pl) impf, uprawiać ipsację impf
• Portuguese: masturbar-se (oneself), masturbar (pt) (another person)
• Romanian: masturba (ro)
• Russian: мастурби́ровать (ru) impf (masturbírovatʹ), онани́ровать (ru) impf (onanírovatʹ)
• Sanskrit: ह्स्त्मैथुन (hstmaithuna)
• Scottish Gaelic: brod
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мастурби́рати impf, самозадовоља́вати се

  Roman: masturbírati (sh) impf, samozadovoljávati se (sh)

• Slovak: masturbovať impf, onanovať impf, ukájať
• Slovene: masturbirati impf
• Spanish: masturbarse (es), masturbar (es)
• Swedish: onanera (sv), masturbera, runka (sv), klittra (sv), pulla (sv)
• Tagalog: salsal, jakol
• Tajik: истимно кардан (istimno kardan), ҷалқ задан (jalq zadan)
• Thai: ช่วยตัวเอง (th) (chûai-dtuua-eeng)
• Tibetan: འདག་བརྒྱབ ('dag brgyab)
• Turkish: mastürbasyon yapmak (tr)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: мастурбува́ти impf (masturbuváty), онаніюва́ти impf (onanijuváty)
• Urdu: مٹھ مارنا‎‎ (muṭṭh mārna)
• Uzbek: onanizm qilmoq
• Vietnamese: thủ dâm (vi), tự sướng (vi) (dated), quay tay (vi)
• Welsh: please add this translation if you can

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Esperanto

Adverb

masturbate

1. present adverbial passive participle of masturbi

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Italian

Verb

masturbate

1. second-person plural present indicative of masturbare
2. second-person plural imperative of masturbare
3. feminine plural of masturbato

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Latin

Participle

masturbāte

1. vocative masculine singular of masturbātus

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [masturˈbate]

Adjective

masturbate f pl, n pl

1. feminine plural nominative of masturbat
2. feminine plural accusative of masturbat
3. neuter plural nominative of masturbat
4. neuter plural accusative of masturbat