masturbate

See also: mastúrbate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːstəbæet/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmastəbeɪt/, /ˈmæstəbeɪt/, /ˈmɑːstəbeɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæstəɹbeɪt/

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 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
• tickle the sausage
• toss off
• wank
• whack off

• See Wikisaurus:masturbate

Derived terms

Derived terms

• masturbation
• masturbator

• masturbatory
• mutual masturbation

Translations

to masturbate

• Arabic: اِسْتَمْنَى‏‎ (istamnā), مَارَسَ الْعَادَة السِّرِّيَّة‏‎ (mārasa l-ʿāda s-sirriyya)
• Armenian: մաստուրբացիայով զբաղվել (masturbacʿiayov zbałvel)
• Bengali: হাত মারা (hat mara), হস্তমৈথুন করা (hôstmoithun kôra)
• Bulgarian: мастурбирам (masturbiram), онанирам (onaniram)
• Catalan: masturbar-se (ca)
• Cebuano: lulu
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: masturbovat (cs), onanovat (cs)
• 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)
• French: masturber (fr)
• German: masturbieren (de)
• Greek: αυνανίζομαι (el) (avnanízomai)
• Hebrew: אונן‏‎ (he) (onen)
• Hindi: हस्तमैथुन करना (hastmaithun 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)
• Latin: masturbor

• Macedonian: мастурбира (masturbíra), онанира (onaníra)
• Malay: lancap, rancap
• Maori: tītoitoi
• Norwegian: masturbere

  Bokmål: onanere

• Oriya: ମୁଠି ମାରିବା (muṭhi māribā), ହସ୍ତ ମୈଥୁନ (hasta maithuna)
• Persian: جلق زدن‏‎ (jalq zadan), استمنا کردن‏‎ (estemnâ kardan)
• Polish: masturbować się (pl) (reflexive)
• Portuguese: masturbar-se (oneself), masturbar (pt) (another person)
• Romanian: masturba (ro)
• Russian: мастурби́ровать (ru) (masturbírovatʹ), онани́ровать (ru) (onanírovatʹ)
• Sanskrit: ह्स्त्मैथुन (hastmaithun)
• Scottish Gaelic: brod
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мастурбирати, самозадовоља́вати се

  Roman: masturbírati, samozadovoljávati se (sh)

• Slovak: masturbovať, onanovať, ukájať
• Spanish: masturbarse (es), masturbar (es)
• Swedish: onanera (sv), masturbera
• Tagalog: salsal
• Thai: ช่วยตัวเอง (th) (chûai-dtuua-eeng)
• Turkish: mastürbasyon yapmak (tr)
• Urdu: مٹھ مارنا‏‎ (muṭṭh mārna)
• Vietnamese: thủ dâm (vi), tự sướng (vi) (dated)

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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