detain

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪˈteɪn/

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• Rhymes: -eɪn

Verb

detain (third-person singular simple present detains, present participle detaining, simple past and past participle detained)

1. Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
2. (transitive) To put under custody.

Translations

put under custody

• Arabic: اعتقال (ar) (iʿtáqala), imperfect: يعتقل (ar) (yaʿtáqilu)
• Bulgarian: задържам (bg) (zadǎržam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拘留 (cmn) (jūliú), 扣留 (cmn) (kòuliú), 扣押 (cmn) (kòuyā), 看押 (cmn) (kānyā), 拘禁 (cmn) (jūjìn)

• Czech: zdržet (cs)
• Dutch: detineren (nl)
• Finnish: pidättää (fi)
• French: détenir (fr), arrêter (fr)
• German: verhaften (de)
• Hungarian: őrizetbe vesz (hu)
• Irish: coinnigh (ga)

• Italian: detenere (it), trattenere (it)
• Japanese: 拘留する (ja) (こうりゅうする, kōryū-suru), 引き留める (ja) (ひきとめる, hikitomeru)
• Latin: teneo (la)
• Polish: zatrzymać (pl)
• Russian: задерживать (ru) (zadérživatʹ)  impf., задержать (ru) (zaderžátʹ)  pf.
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: задржати (sh)

  Roman: zadržati (sh)

• Spanish: detener (es), retener (es)
• Swedish: gripa (sv), internera (sv)

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Estonian: arreteerima or kinni pidama