interrogate

English

Etymology

From Latin interrogatus, past participle of interrogare (“to ask, question”), from inter (“between”) + rogare (“to ask”); see rogation.

Pronunciation

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Verb

interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

1. (transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner

   The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.

2. (transitive, computing) to query; to request information from.

   to interrogate a database

Related terms

• interrogable
• interrogatee
• interrogation
• interrogative
• interrogatively
• interrogator
• interrogatory

 

Translations

to question or quiz

• Armenian: հարցաքննել (hy) (harcʿakʿnnel)
• Catalan: interrogar (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 審問 (zh), 审问 (zh) (shěnwèn), 審訊 (zh), 审讯 (zh) (shěnxùn)

• Czech: vyslýchat
• Dutch: verhoren (nl), ondervragen (nl), interrogeren (nl)
• Esperanto: pridemandi (eo)
• Finnish: kuulustella (fi)
• French: interroger (fr)
• Georgian: გამოკითხავს (gamoḳitxavs)
• German: verhören (de)
• Greek: ανακρίνω (el) (anakríno)
• Hungarian: faggat (hu), vallat (hu), kikérdez (hu), kifaggat (hu)
• Irish: ceistigh
• Japanese: 訊く (ja) (きく, kiku), 尋問する (ja) (じんもんする, jinmon-suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: sciscitor
• Maori: uiui
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: avhøra
• Persian: بازجویی کردن‎ (bâz-juyi kardan)
• Polish: przesłuchiwać (pl), przesłuchać (pl)
• Portuguese: interrogar, questionar (pt)
• Russian: допра́шивать (ru) impf (doprášivatʹ), допроси́ть (ru) pf (doprosítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: ispítati (sh), prèslušati (sh)

• Spanish: interrogar (es)
• Swedish: förhöra (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sorguya çekmek (tr), sorgulamak (tr), soru sormak (tr), isticvap etmek, istinkak etmek
• Ukrainian: допи́тувати impf (dopýtuvaty), допита́ти pf (dopytáty)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

References

• interrogate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• interrogate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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Italian

Verb

interrogate

1. second-person plural present indicative of interrogare
2. second-person plural imperative of interrogare
3. feminine plural of interrogato

Anagrams

• integratore, reintegrato

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Latin

Verb

interrogāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interrogō