masturbate

See also: mastúrbate

English

Etymology

A back-formation from masturbation, or else from Latin masturbātus (see -ate), past participle of masturbor. Further derivation of the Latin verb is uncertain; see masturbor for more.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæ.stə.beɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæs.tɚ.beɪt/

• Audio (General American):

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.stə.bæɪt/
• 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 or a sex toy made for this purpose, often to the point of ejaculation or orgasm.

   I'm looking for some hot videos to masturbate to.

   • 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).

   • 2013, Norm Macdonald Live, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Norm Macdonald:

     I like hotels, they make your bed, make your dinner, send housekeepers up to watch you masturbate, it's a dream.

2. (transitive, colloquial) To manually or by other means than one's own genitals stimulate someone else's genitals sexually.
   • 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 293:

     Mrs Intiasar’s maids often masturbated her in the morning. It wasn’t something she discussed with anybody, least of all the maids. In fact, she hardly thought about it.

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 one out
• bash the bishop
• bate
• beat off
• beat the meat
• choke the chicken
• crank the hog
• diddle
• fap
• flick one's bean
• flog the dong
• goon
• have fun with Dick and Jane
• jack it
• jack off
• jerk off
• jill
• jill off
• jork it
• 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
• wax the dolphin
• whack off

• See Thesaurus:masturbate

Derived terms

• intellectual masturbation
• mass debate
• masturbater
• masturbatic
• masturbation
• masturbator
• masturbatorium
• masturbatory
• masturbatrix
• measurebate
• mental masturbation
• mutual masturbation
• nonmasturbating
• procrasturbate

Translations

to masturbate

• Afrikaans: masturbeer
• Albanian: masturbohem
• Arabic: اِسْتَمْنَى (istamnā), مَارَسَ الْعَادَة السِّرِّيَّة (mārasa l-ʕāda s-sirriyya)
• Armenian: մաստուրբացիայով զբաղվել (masturbacʻiayov zbaġvel)
• Azerbaijani: onanizm etmək
• Basque: masturbatu
• Belarusian: мастурбава́ць impf (masturbavácʹ), анані́раваць impf (ananíravacʹ)
• Bengali: হাত মারা (bn) (hat mara), হস্তমৈথুন করা (bn) (hostomōithun kora)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: salsal (bcl)

• Bulgarian: мастурби́рам impf or pf (masturbíram), онани́рам impf or pf (onaníram)
• Catalan: masturbar-se (ca)
• Cebuano: lulu, jakol
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打飛機 / 打飞机 (daa² fei¹ gei¹), 手淫 (sau² jam⁴)

  Mandarin: 手淫 (zh) (shǒuyín), 自慰 (zh) (zìwèi), 打手槍 / 打手枪 (zh) (dǎ shǒuqiāng), 打膠 / 打胶 (dǎjiāo), 打 (zh) (dǎ), 打手銃 / 打手铳 (zh) (dǎshǒuchòng), 擼管 / 撸管 (zh) (lūguǎn) (referring to a male)

• Czech: masturbovat (cs) impf, onanovat (cs) impf
• Danish: masturbere, onanere
• Dutch: masturberen (nl)
• Esperanto: masturbi, sinmasturbi
• Estonian: masturbeerima, ennast rahuldama, eneserahuldamisega tegelema
• Faroese: fleyga sær, onanera
• Finnish: tyydyttää itsensä, harjoittaa itsetyydytystä, masturboida (fi), itsetyydyttää (fi)
• French: masturber (fr), branler (fr) (vulgar)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: masturbearje

• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: masturbieren (de), sich befriedigen, (sich) selbstbefriedigen, onanieren (de), sich einen runterholen (colloquial), wichsen (de) (vulgar)
• Greek: αυνανίζομαι (el) (avnanízomai)

  Ancient Greek: ἀναφλάω (anaphláō), (vulgar) δέφομαι (déphomai), λέπομαι (lépomai)

• Hebrew: אוֹנֵן (he) (onen)
• Hindi: हस्तमैथुन करना (hastamaithun karnā), मुठ मारना (muṭh mārnā), मूठ मारना (mūṭh mārnā), हिलाना (hi) (hilānā)
• Hungarian: maszturbál (hu)
• Icelandic: runka (is), fróa sér
• 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 (ja) (onaru), マスターベーションする (ja) (masutābēshon suru), マスをかく (masu o kaku), シコる (shikoru), 抜く (ja) (nuku), 扱く (ja) (koku)
• Jarai: ñăr (male)
• Khmer: បញ្ឆាច់ (km) (bɑñchac)
• Korean: 자위행위를 하다 (jawihaeng'wireul hada), 수음하다 (sueumhada), 마스터베이션을 하다 (maseuteobeisyeoneul hada), 자위하다 (ko) (jawihada)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەست پەڕاندن (dest perrandin), دەست پەڕکاندن (dest perrkandin)

• Latin: masturbor, (vulgar, male) glubo
• Latvian: masturbēt
• Lithuanian: masturbuoti
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: masturberen

• Macedonian: мастурби́ра impf or pf (masturbíra), онани́ра impf or pf (onaníra)
• Malay: lancap (ms), rancap
• Māori: tītoitoi (referring to a male), pīkoikoi (referring to a female)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: (slang) छोल्नु (cholnu)
• Norwegian: masturbere

  Bokmål: onanere

  Nynorsk: masturbera, onanera, runka

• Odia: ମୁଠି ମାରିବା (muṭhi māribā), ହସ୍ତ ମୈଥୁନ (hasta maithuna)
• Persian: جلق زدن (jalq zadan), استمنا کردن (estemnâ kardan)
• Polish: masturbować się impf, onanizować się impf, uprawiać ipsację impf, walić gruchę (for men only)
• Portuguese: masturbar-se (oneself), masturbar (pt) (another person)
• Romanian: masturba (ro)
• Russian: мастурби́ровать (ru) impf (masturbírovatʹ), онани́ровать (ru) impf (onanírovatʹ), дрочить (ru) (dročitʹ)
• Sanskrit: हस्तमैथुनम् करोति (hastamaithunam karoti)
• Scottish Gaelic: brod
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мастурби́рати impf, самозадовоља́вати се

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

• Sicilian: minàrisi, minarisilla
• Slovak: masturbovať impf, onanovať impf, ukájať
• Slovene: masturbirati impf
• Spanish: masturbarse (es), masturbar (es)
• Swedish: onanera (sv), masturbera (sv), runka (sv), klittra (sv), pulla (sv)
• Tagalog: salsal, jakol
• Tajik: истимно кардан (istimno kardan), ҷалқ задан (jalq zadan)
• Thai: ช่วยตัวเอง (th) (chûai-dtuua-eeng), ชักว่าว (th) (chák-wâao)
• Tibetan: འདག་བརྒྱབ ('dag brgyab)
• Turkish: mastürbasyon yapmak (tr), siftinmek (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: mastyrbio (cy), llawgnychu

Esperanto

Adverb

masturbate

1. present adverbial passive participle of masturbi

Italian

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

masturbate

1. inflection of masturbare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

masturbate f pl

1. feminine plural of masturbato

Anagrams

• stamburate

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mas.tʊrˈbaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [mas.turˈbaː.te]

Participle

masturbāte

1. vocative masculine singular of masturbātus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [masturˈbate]

Adjective

masturbate f pl or n pl

1. feminine/neuter plural nominative/accusative of masturbat

Spanish

Verb

masturbate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of masturbar combined with te