masturbation

See also: Masturbation and Masturbatioun

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French masturbation, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin verb masturbor, conjectured to have originated from a contraction of manus (“hand”) and turbō (“disturb, throw into confusion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmæstəˈbeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmɑːstəˈbeɪʃ(ə)n/
• enPR: măs'tərbāʹshən, IPA^(key): /ˌmæstɚˈbeɪʃən/
• Hyphenation: mas‧tur‧ba‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

masturbation (usually uncountable, plural masturbations)

1. Manual erotic stimulation of the genitals or other erotic regions, often to orgasm, either by oneself or a partner.

   Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives. ―Betty Dodson

   • 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.

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2. (figurative) A vain activity.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:masturbation.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:masturbation
• fingering, rolling the pill, bean flicking (female masturbation)

Derived terms

• antimasturbation
• masturbational
• masturbationism
• masturbationist
• masturbationlike
• mental masturbation
• mutual masturbation
• mutual masturbation
• overmasturbation

 

Related terms

• masturbate
• masturbator
• masturbatory

Translations

manual erotic stimulation of the genitals

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

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

• Armenian: մաստուրբացիա (hy) (masturbacʻia)
• Azerbaijani: kəfləmə, onanizm
• Belarusian: мастурба́цыя f (masturbácyja), анані́зм m (ananízm)
• Bengali: হস্তমৈথুন (hostomōithun), হাত মারা (hat mara)
• Bulgarian: мастурба́ция f (masturbácija), чикия f (čikija) (slang)
• Catalan: masturbació 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), 打飞机 (daa² fei¹ gei¹), (female, vulgar) 打潛艇／打潜艇 (daa² cim⁴ teng⁵), 打潜艇 (daa² cim⁴ teng⁵)

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

• 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: masturbaatio (fi), itsetyydytys (fi)
• French: masturbation (fr) f, onanisme (fr) m, branlette (fr) f (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: ἀναφλασμός m (anaphlasmós)

• 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 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 (masutābēshon), オナニー (ja) (onanī), 自慰 (じい, jii), 手淫 (しゅいん, shuin), 一人エッチ (hitori etchi), せんずり (senzuri)
• Kazakh: мастурбация (masturbasiä), онанизм (onanizm)
• Korean: 마스터베이션 (ko) (maseuteobeisyeon), 자위 (ko) (jawi), 딸딸이 (ko) (ttalttari), 수음 (ko) (sueum), 자위행위 (ko) (jawihaeng'wi)
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• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: мастурбация (masturbatsiya), онанизм (onanizm)
• Latin: masturbātiō f
• Latvian: masturbācija f
• Lithuanian: masturbacija f
• Macedonian: мастурбација f (masturbacija)
• Malay: pelancapan, masturbasi
• Norwegian: onanering
• Pashto: موټک (muṭak)
• Persian: جلق (fa) (jalq)
• Polish: masturbacja (pl) f, onanizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: masturbação (pt), punheta (slang)
• Romanian: masturbație (ro) f, masturbare (ro) f
• Russian: мастурба́ция (ru) f (masturbácija), онани́зм (ru) m (onanízm), рукоблу́дие (ru) n (rukoblúdije), дро́чка (ru) f (dróčka) (vulgar)
• Samogitian: mastorbacėjė f
• Sanskrit: हस्तमैथुन m (hastamaithuna)
• Scottish Gaelic: brodadh m, fèin-bhrodadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

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

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

• Sinhalese: ස්වයං වින්දනය (swayaṁ windanaya)
• Slovak: ukájanie n, onania f, masturbácia f
• 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)
• Thai: การช่วยตัวเอง (gaan-chûai-dtuua-eeng), การสำเร็จความใคร่ (gaan-sǎm-rèt-kwaam-krâi)
• Turkish: mastürbasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: мастурба́ція f (masturbácija), онані́зм m (onanízm)
• 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

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French

Etymology

masturber +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas.tyʁ.ba.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

masturbation f (plural masturbations)

1. masturbation

Synonyms

• onanisme

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Noun

masturbation f (plural not attested)

1. masturbation