menstruate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɛnstɹʊeɪt/
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• General-American: /ˌmɛnstɹuˈeɪt/
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• General-American: /ˈmɛnstɹəˌweɪt/
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• General-American: /ˌmɛnˈstɹeɪt/
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• rhymes with -eɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: M EH1 N S T R UW0 EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English menstruum Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English menstruate From menstruum + -ate (adjective-forming usffix).

From menstruum + -ate (verb-forming suffix); sense 2 (“to undergo menstruation”) is possibly a back-formation from menstruation.

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حَاضَ (ḥāḍa) — to undergo menstruation
• Belarusian: менструі́раваць (mjenstruíravacʹ) — to undergo menstruation
• Burmese: သွေးပေါ် (swe:pau) — to undergo menstruation
• Catalan: menstruar — to undergo menstruation
• Chinese Mandarin: 來月經 /来月经 (lái yuèjīng) — to undergo menstruation
• Chinese Mandarin: 行經 /行经 (xíngjīng) — to undergo menstruation
• Czech: menstruovat — to undergo menstruation
• Danish: menstruere — to undergo menstruation
• Egyptian: U32-D26 (ḥzmn) — to undergo menstruation
• Finnish: olla kuukautiset — to undergo menstruation
• French: avoir ses règles — to undergo menstruation
• Galician: menstruar — to undergo menstruation
• German: menstruieren — to undergo menstruation
• German: den Monatsfluss haben — to undergo menstruation
• Irish: míostraigh — to undergo menstruation
• Italian: mestruare — to undergo menstruation
• Italian: menstruare — to undergo menstruation
• Italian: avere il ciclo — to undergo menstruation
• Japanese: 生理がある (seiri ga aru) — to undergo menstruation
• Khmer: មានរដូវ (miən rɔɔrɔdəw) — to undergo menstruation
• Norwegian Bokmål: menstruere — to undergo menstruation
• Norwegian Nynorsk: menstruera — to undergo menstruation
• Norwegian Nynorsk: menstruere — to undergo menstruation
• Polish: miesiączkować — to undergo menstruation
• Portuguese: menstruar — to undergo menstruation
• Russian: менструи́ровать (menstruírovatʹ) — to undergo menstruation
• Russian: име́ть ме́сячные (imétʹ mésjačnyje) — to undergo menstruation
• Russian: име́ть менструа́цию (imétʹ menstruáciju) — to undergo menstruation
• Russian: быть в пери́оде менструа́ции (bytʹ v període menstruácii) — to undergo menstruation
• Spanish: menstruar — to undergo menstruation
• Swedish: menstruera — to undergo menstruation
• Swedish: ha menstruation — to undergo menstruation
• Vietnamese: có kinh nguyệt — to undergo menstruation