# menstruate
## English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɛnstɹʊeɪt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˌmɛnstɹuˈeɪt/, /ˈmɛnstɹəˌweɪt/, /ˌmɛnˈstɹeɪt/ (the latter pronunciation leading to the spelling menstrate)
* Rhymes: -eɪt
* Hyphenation: men‧stru‧ate

#### Verb

menstruate (third-person singular simple present menstruates, present participle menstruating, simple past and past participle menstruated)
* (transitive, obsolete, rare) To stain with or as if with menses.
* (intransitive) To undergo menstruation, to have a period.
    Synonyms: be on one's period, be on the rag
** 1884, The Medical Age, volume 2, page 358:A woman may have every quality or attribute of marriageableness who menstruates irregularly, or rarely, or even who has never menstruated at all.
** 1885, Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max Bartels, Paul Bartels, translated by Eric John Dingwall, Woman: an historical, gynæcological and anthropological compendium, page 150:Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".
** 2021 November 20, Angela Mollard, “Gen Z cancelling musical Grease is disappointing”, in The Daily Telegraph, Surrey Hills, N.S.W:Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.

##### Alternative forms

* menstrate (nonstandard, possibly proscribed)

##### Related terms

* menstrual
* menstruation
* menstruator
* menstruous

##### Translations

Arabic: حَاضَ (ḥāḍa)
Belarusian: менструі́раваць impf (mjenstruíravacʹ)
Burmese: သွေးပေါ် (my) (swe:pau)
Catalan: menstruar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 來月經 / 来月经 (lái yuèjīng), 行經 / 行经 (zh) (xíngjīng)
Czech: menstruovat (cs) impf
Danish: menstruere
Egyptian: (ḥzmn)
Finnish: olla kuukautiset (fi)
French: avoir ses règles
Galician: menstruar
German: menstruieren (de), den Monatsfluss haben
Irish: míostraigh
Italian: mestruare, menstruare (rare), avere il ciclo ("to have one's cycle")
Japanese: 生理がある (せいりがある, seiri ga aru)
Khmer: មានរដូវ (miən rɔdəw)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: menstruere
Nynorsk: menstruera, menstruere
Polish: miesiączkować (pl)
Portuguese: menstruar (pt)
Russian: менструи́ровать (ru) impf (menstruírovatʹ), име́ть ме́сячные impf (imétʹ mésjačnyje), име́ть менструа́цию impf (imétʹ menstruáciju), быть в пери́оде менструа́ции impf (bytʹ v període menstruácii)
Spanish: menstruar (es)
Swedish: menstruera, ha menstruation
Vietnamese: có kinh nguyệt :

### Etymology 2

From menstruum +‎ -ate (adjective-forming usffix).

#### Adjective

menstruate (not comparable)
* (obsolete) Menstrual.

### References

* ↑ “menstruate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2001.

### Further reading

* menstruation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* tsunameter

## Italian
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

menstruate
* inflection of menstruare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Etymology 2
#### Participle

menstruate f pl
* feminine plural of menstruato

### Anagrams

* mestruante

## Latin
### Verb

mēnstruāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of mēnstruō

## Spanish
### Verb

menstruate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of menstruar combined with te