From خود (xod, “self”) + ارضایی (erzâi, “satisfaction”), perhaps after German Selbstbefriedigung.
| This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The German is a perfect semantic match and given the importance of German in early psychological literature the influence is plausible. But we'd need the earliest Persian attestation. If it's older than +/- 1900, it would be less likely.” |
خودارضایی • (xod-erzâyi)
