detain

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French detenir. Cognate with Italian detenere, Portuguese deter, Romanian deține, and Spanish detener.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /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. (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
2. (transitive) To put under custody.
3. (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
   • (Can we date this quote by Jeremy Taylor and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Detain not the wages of the hireling.

4. (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.

Related terms

Category English terms derived from the Tama (Colombia) root detain- not found

Translations

to detain — see hold

keep someone from proceeding

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: pidätellä (fi)
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• Greek: καθυστερώ (el) (kathysteró)
• Latin: dētineō
• Maori: tātāwhi
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

put under custody

• Arabic: اِعْتَقَلَ (ar) (iʕtaqala)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: запрещавам (bg) (zapreštavam), задържам под стража (zadǎržam pod straža)
• Catalan: detenir (ca), detindre
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: zadržet
• Danish: tilbageholde (da)
• Dutch: detineren (nl)
• Esperanto: reteni
• Finnish: pidättää (fi)
• French: détenir (fr), arrêter (fr)
• Galician: deter (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: verhaften (de)
• Greek: κρατώ (el) (krató)
• Hungarian: őrizetbe vesz (hu)
• Irish: coinnigh
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• 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 (ひきとめる, hikitomeru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: teneo (la)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: zatrzymać (pl)
• Portuguese: deter (pt)
• Romanian: a reține
• Russian: заде́рживать (ru) impf (zadérživatʹ), задержа́ть (ru) pf (zaderžátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: задржати

  Roman: zadržati (sh)

• Spanish: detener (es), retener (es)
• Swedish: gripa (sv), internera (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gözaltına almak (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

keep back or from

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: pidättää (fi)
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• Maori: tautāwhi
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

seize goods for official purposes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: takavarikoida (fi)
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• Greek: κατάσχω (el) (katáscho)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Estonian: arreteerima or kinni pidama
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Anagrams

• Danite, Tienda, indate, nidate, tienda