Etymology
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castrate + -ion
Pronunciation
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castration (countable and uncountable, plural castrations)
- (surgery) The act of removing the testicles.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 125:Castration of bulls was a socialization process that turned a bull into an ox; in this transformation something wild became something very useful; nature became culture.
- (figuratively) Any act that removes power from a person (particularly a man) or entity.
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act of removing the testicles
- Arabic: إِخْصَاء m (ʔiḵṣāʔ)
- Bulgarian: кастра́ция f (kastrácija), скопяване n (skopjavane)
- Catalan: castració f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 去勢/去势 (zh) (qùshì), 閹割/阉割 (zh) (yāngē), (historical) 腐刑 (zh) (fǔxíng), 宮刑/宫刑 (zh) (gōngxíng)
- Czech: kastrace (cs) f
- Danish: kastrering c, kastration (da) c
- Dutch: castratie (nl) f
- Finnish: kastraatio (fi), kastrointi (fi), kuohinta (fi), kuohiminen (fi)
- French: castration (fr) f
- German: Kastrierung f, Hodenentfernung f
- Greek: ευνουχισμός (el) m (evnouchismós)
- Hebrew: סירוס m (sirus')
- Indonesian: pengebirian (id)
- Italian: castrazione (it) f
- Japanese: 去勢 (ja) (きょせい, kyosei), (historical) 宮刑 (ja) (きゅうけい, kyūkei), 腐刑 (ja) (ふけい, fukei)
- Kazakh: піштіру (pıştıru), тарттыру (tarttyru)
- Korean: 거세(去勢) (geose), 궁형(宮刑) (ko) (gunghyeong)
- Latvian: kastrācija f, kastrēšana f
- Malay: pengasian, pengembirian
- Malayalam: ഷണ്ഡീകരണം (ṣaṇḍīkaraṇaṁ), വരി ഉടയ്ക്കൽ (vari uṭaykkal) (animals)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kastrasjon m, kastrering m or f
- Nynorsk: kastrasjon m, kastrering f
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: kastracja (pl) f
- Portuguese: castração (pt) f
- Russian: кастра́ция (ru) f (kastrácija)
- Scottish Gaelic: spothadh m
- Spanish: castración (es) f
- Swedish: kastrering c
- Turkish: burma (tr), eneme (tr), kastrasyon, iğdiş etme
- Vietnamese: sự thiến (vi) (事騸)
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figurative: removal of power
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