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masturbar

Portuguese, verb/mas.tuʁˈba(ʁ)/

masturbar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to masturbate (manually stimulate one's sexual organs)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “estimular alguma parte erógena do corpo com o objetivo de se obter prazer sexual”.

What does masturbar mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to masturbate (manually stimulate one's sexual organs)

    O rapaz masturbava-se todas as noites.

  2. 2

    to masturbate (manually stimulate someone else's sexual organs)

    Um parceiro masturba o outro.

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

verb: 1. estimular alguma parte erógena do corpo com o objetivo de se obter prazer sexual 2. elogiar-se a si próprio ou a outrem, sobretudo de maneira exagerada

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of masturbar

  • masturbo first-person present singular
  • masturbei first-person preterite singular
  • masturbado participle past
  • masturbares infinitive second-person singular
  • masturbarmos first-person infinitive plural
  • masturbardes infinitive plural second-person
  • masturbarem infinitive plural third-person
  • masturbando gerund
  • masturbados masculine participle past
  • masturbada feminine participle past
  • masturbadas feminine participle past
  • masturbas indicative present second-person
  • masturba indicative present singular
  • masturbamos first-person indicative plural
  • masturbais indicative plural present
  • masturbam indicative plural present
  • masturbava first-person imperfect indicative
  • masturbavas imperfect indicative second-person

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce masturbar?

  • Brazil /mas.tuʁˈba(ʁ)/
  • Brazil [mas.tuɦˈba(h)]
  • /mas.tuɾˈba(ɾ)/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to masturbar

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is masturbar in Portuguese?

masturbar appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).