masturbation

See also: Masturbation

English

Pre-Columbian pottery depicting female masturbation.

Etymology

Borrowed from French masturbation, New Latin masturbātiō, masturbātiōnem. By surface analysis, masturbat(e) +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmæstəˈbeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmɑːstəˈbeɪʃ(ə)n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmæstɚˈbeɪʃən/

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• Hyphenation: mas‧tur‧ba‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

masturbation (usually uncountable, plural masturbations)

1. Sexual stimulation of one's genitalia or other erotic regions, often to the point of orgasm.

   Synonyms: onanism, self-abuse; see also Thesaurus:masturbation

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Diogenes in sight of all, exercising his Masturbation, bred a longing desire in the bystanders, that in such sort they might fill their bellies by rubbing or clawing the same.

   • 2005, Jon Kimmel, Clum Babies (Drawn Together), season 2, episode 5, spoken by Foxxy Love (Cree Summer), via Comedy Central:

     Masturbation is fun and natural. Not to mention it's a great way to earn five bucks without touchin' the guy.

   • 2023 January 18, Matt Soniak, “When Corn Flakes Were Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade”, in Mental Floss‎^[1]:

     While masturbation was never favored in Judeo-Christian tradition, Victorian morality, along with the Great Awakening and other religious revivals in America, created a perfect storm for people to really get obsessed with it.

2. (by extension) The stimulation of another person's genitals using the hands.
3. (figurative, derogatory) A vain activity that serves only to provide self-indulgent satisfaction without any practical or external value.

   That experimental film was nothing more than intellectual masturbation for the director.

   • 2013, Days N' Daze, “Misanthropic Drunken Loner”, in Rogue Taxidermy:

     So call me antisocial, call it masturbation
     Either way, it's a solo operation
     I'm just far more comfortable alone

Derived terms

• antimasturbation
• intellectual masturbation
• masturbational
• masturbationism
• masturbationist
• masturbationlike
• mental masturbation
• musturbation
• mutual masturbation
• overmasturbation
• procrasturbation

Related terms

• masturbate
• masturbator
• masturbatory

Descendants

• → Japanese: マスターベーション (masutābēshon)
• → Korean: 마스터베이션 (maseuteobeisyeon)

Translations

manual erotic stimulation of the genitals — see also onanism,‎ autoerotism

• Albanian: masturbim m
• Arabic: عَادَة سِرِّيَّة f (ʕāda sirriyya), (male) اِسْتِمْنَاء m (istimnāʔ)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَجْليخ m (tajlĪḵ) (vulgar), عَادَة سِرِّيَّة f (ʕāda sirriyya)

• Armenian: մաստուրբացիա (hy) (masturbacʻia)
• Azerbaijani: kəfləmə, onanizm, masturbasiya (az), suxoy vurmaq, suxoylamaq
• Belarusian: мастурба́цыя f (masturbácyja), анані́зм m (ananízm)
• Bengali: হস্তমৈথুন (bn) (hostomōithun), হাত মারা (bn) (hat mara)
• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: pagsalsal

• Bulgarian: мастурба́ция f (masturbácija), чекия (bg) f (čekija) (slang)
• Catalan: masturbació (ca) f, palla (ca) f (slang)
• Cebuano: paglusi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 自慰 (zi⁶ wai³), 手淫 (sau² jam⁴), (male, vulgar) 打飛機 / 打飞机 (daa² fei¹ gei¹), (female, vulgar) 打潛艇 / 打潜艇 (daa² cim⁴ teng⁵)

  Mandarin: 手淫 (zh) (shǒuyín), 自慰 (zh) (zìwèi), 自瀆 / 自渎 (zh) (zìdú), 自淫 (zh) (zìyín),

• Czech: masturbace (cs) f, onanie (cs) f
• Danish: masturbation (da) c, onani c
• Dutch: zelfbevrediging (nl) f, masturbatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: masturbado
• Estonian: masturbeerimine, onanism (et)
• Faroese: sjálvsnøktan f
• Finnish: itsetyydytys (fi), masturbaatio (fi)
• French: masturbation (fr) f, onanisme (fr) m, branlette (fr) f (slang)

  Canadian French: crosse (fr) (vulgar) (slang)

• Georgian: მასტურბაცია (ka) (masṭurbacia), ნძრევა (nʒreva)
• German: Masturbation (de) f, Onanie (de) f, Selbstbefriedigung (de) f
• Greek: αυνανισμός (el) (avnanismós), (slang) μαλακία (el) (malakía)

  Ancient Greek: ἀναφλασμός m (anaphlasmós)

• Greenlandic: anisoorniarneq, tissassarneq
• Gujarati: હસ્તમૈથુન (hastamaithun)
• Hebrew: אוֹנָנוּת (he) f (onanút)
• Hindi: हस्तमैथुन (hi) m (hastamaithun)
• Hungarian: önkielégítés (hu), maszturbáció (hu)
• Icelandic: sjálfsfróun (is) f, rúnk n
• Indonesian: onani (id), masturbasi (id) f, ngocok (id) m (slang), cokil m (slang), coli (id) f
• Irish: glacaireacht f, lámhchartadh m
• Italian: masturbazione (it) f
• Japanese: マスターベーション (ja) (masutābēshon), オナニー (ja) (onanī), 自慰 (ja) (じい, jii), 手淫 (ja) (しゅいん, shuin), 一人エッチ (ja) (hitori etchi), せんずり (ja) (senzuri), かわつるみ (kawatsurumi), 一人遊び (hitoriasobi), 着せ剥ぎ (kisehagi), 手慰み (tenagusami), 手妻 (tezuma), 当て掻き (ategaki)
• Kazakh: мастурбация (masturbasiä), онанизм (onanizm)
• Korean: 마스터베이션 (ko) (maseuteobeisyeon), 자위(自慰) (ko) (jawi), 딸딸이 (ko) (ttalttari), 수음(手淫) (ko) (sueum), 자위행위(自慰行爲) (ko) (jawihaeng'wi)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: destperkî (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: мастурбация (masturbatsiya), онанизм (onanizm)
• Latin: masturbātiō f
• Latvian: masturbācija f
• Lithuanian: masturbacija f
• Macedonian: мастурбација f (masturbacija)
• Malay: pelancapan (ms), masturbasi
• Marathi: हस्तमैथुन n (hastamaithun)
• Mongolian: хангалга (mn) (xangalga), мастурбац (masturbac)
• Nepali: हस्तमैथुन (ne) (hastamaithuna)
• Norwegian: onanering
• Nǀuu: please add this translation if you can
• Old Tupi: pupuka
• Pashto: موټک (muṭak)
• Persian: جلق (fa) (jalq)
• Polish: masturbacja (pl) f, onanizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: masturbação (pt), punheta (pt) (slang)
• Romanian: masturbație (ro) f, masturbare (ro) f, onanie (ro) f
• Russian: мастурба́ция (ru) f (masturbácija), онани́зм (ru) m (onanízm), рукоблу́дие (ru) n (rukoblúdije), дро́чка (ru) f (dróčka) (vulgar)
• Sami:

  Inari Sami: jieštuđâttem

  Northern Sami: iešduhtadeapmi

  Skolt Sami: jiijjâstoođtummuš

• Samogitian: mastorbacėjė f
• Sanskrit: हस्तमैथुन m (hastamaithuna)
• Scottish Gaelic: brodadh m, fèin-bhrodadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: самозадовољавање (sh) n, мастурбација (sh) f, рукоблуд m, мануступрација f, самоблуд m, онанија (sh) f, (vulgar) дркање n

  Latin: samozadovoljavanje (sh) n, masturbacija (sh) f, rukoblud m, manustupracija (sh) f, samoblud (sh) m, onanija (sh) f, drkanje n

• Sicilian: minata f, masturbazziuni f
• Sinhalese: ස්වයං වින්දනය (swayaṁ windanaya)
• Slovak: ukájanie n, onánia f, masturbácia f, onanovanie n
• Slovene: samozadovoljevanje (sl), drkanje (vulgar), (medical) masturbácija, masturbiranje n
• Spanish: masturbación (es) f, paja (es) f (slang)
• Swahili: punyeto (sw)
• Swedish: onani (sv)
• Tagalog: masturbasyon, pagsalsal, jakol
• Tajik: мастурбатсия (masturbatsiya)
• Tamil: சுய இன்பம் (cuya iṉpam), தற்புணர்ச்சி (taṟpuṇarcci)
• Thai: การช่วยตัวเอง (th) (gaan-chûai-dtuua-eeng), การสำเร็จความใคร่ (gaan-sǎm-rèt-kwaam-krâi)
• Tigrinya: ግብረ ሕቡእ (gəbrä ḥəbuʾ)
• Turkish: mastürbasyon (tr), otuz bir (tr)
• Ukrainian: мастурба́ція f (masturbácija), онані́зм m (onanízm), рукоблу́дство n (rukoblúdstvo)
• Urdu: جلق m (jalaq)
• Uzbek: masturbatsiya
• Vietnamese: sự thủ dâm (vi)
• Volapük: masturbat

Further reading

• masturbation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:masturbation on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Danish

Noun

masturbation c (singular definite masturbationen, plural indefinite masturbationer)

1. masturbation

   Synonym: onani

Declension

Declension of masturbation

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	masturbation	masturbationen	masturbationer	masturbationerne
genitive	masturbations	masturbationens	masturbationers	masturbationernes

Further reading

• “masturbation” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, borrowed from New Latin masturbātiōnem. By surface analysis, masturber +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.tyʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

masturbation f (plural masturbations)

1. masturbation [from 16th c.]

   Synonym: onanisme

   • 1897, Thésée Pouillet, De l'onanisme chez la femme [On onanism in women] (Psychopathie sexuell)‎^[2], volume I:

     La masturbation existe; elle est fort répandue chez les femmes, c'est un fait incontestable […]

     Masturbation exists; it is very widespread among women, that is undeniable […]

Derived terms

• masturbation intellectuelle

Related terms

• masturbateur
• masturbatoire
• masturber

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

masturbation f (plural not attested)

1. masturbation
   • 1506, François de La Mothe Le Vaye, Quatre Dialogues Faits A L'Imitation Des Anciens‎^[3], page 114:

     La premiere façon est parmy nous abominable, la nature reclamant en apparence contre cette deception de nerfs, appellée masturbation.

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Swedish

Noun

masturbation c

1. masturbation

   Synonyms: onani, självbefläckelse

Declension

Declension of masturbation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	masturbation	masturbations
	definite	masturbationen	masturbationens
plural	indefinite	masturbationer	masturbationers
	definite	masturbationerna	masturbationernas

Related terms

• masturbera (“masturbate”)

References

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