interrogate

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛrəɡeɪt/

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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

3. (transitive, literary) to examine critically.
   • 2015. Rita Kiki Edozie, Curtis Stokes. Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies. Michigan State University Press:

     Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes.

Related terms

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

 

Translations

to question or quiz

• Arabic: حَقَّقَ مَعَ‎ (ḥaqqaqa maʿa), اِسْتَجْوَبَ‎ (istajwaba), اِسْتَنْطَقَ‎‎ (istanṭaqa)
• Armenian: հարցաքննել (hy) (harcʿakʿnnel)
• Azerbaijani: dindirmək (az)
• Belarusian: дапы́тваць impf (dapýtvacʹ), дапыта́ць pf (dapytácʹ)
• Bulgarian: разпи́твам (bg) impf (razpítvam), разпи́там pf (razpítam), запи́твам (bg) impf (zapítvam), запи́там pf (zapítam)
• 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 impf
• Danish: forhøre, afhøre
• Dutch: verhoren (nl), ondervragen (nl), interrogeren (nl)
• Esperanto: pridemandi (eo)
• Estonian: üle kuulama
• Finnish: kuulustella (fi)
• French: interroger (fr)
• Georgian: გამოკითხავს (gamoḳitxavs)
• German: verhören (de), vernehmen (de)
• Greek: ανακρίνω (el) (anakríno)
• Hindi: प्रश्न करना (praśna karnā), पूछताछ करना (pūchtāch karnā)
• Hungarian: faggat (hu), vallat (hu), kikérdez (hu), kifaggat (hu)
• Irish: ceistigh
• Italian: interrogare (it)
• Japanese: 尋問する (ja) (じんもんする, jinmon suru), 訊く (ja) (きく, kiku)
• Kazakh: жауап алу (jawap alw), тергеу (kk) (tergew)
• Khmer: សង្កិន (km) (sɑngkən), បុច្ឆា (km) (bocchaa), ផ្ចុច (km) (phcoc), ជជីក (km) (cɔciik)
• Korean: 심문하다 (ko) (simmunhada)
• Kyrgyz: суракка алуу (suraqqa aluu)
• Latin: sciscitor, percontor
• Latvian: nopratināt
• Lithuanian: apklausinėti

• Macedonian: сослушува impf (soslušuva), сослуша pf (sosluša), испитува impf (ispituva), испита pf (ispita)
• Maori: uiui
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: байцаах (mn) (baitsaakh)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avhøra, forhøre

• Persian: بازجویی کردن‎ (bâz-juyi kardan), استنطاق کردن‎ (estentâq kardan), بازپرسی کردن‎‎ (bâzpursi kardan)
• Polish: przesłuchiwać (pl) impf, przesłuchać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: interrogar, questionar (pt)
• Romanian: a interoga (ro)
• Russian: допра́шивать (ru) impf (doprášivatʹ), допроси́ть (ru) pf (doprosítʹ), спра́шивать (ru) impf (sprášivatʹ), спроси́ть (ru) pf (sprosítʹ) (ask, inquire)
• Sanskrit: पृच्छति (sa) (pṛcchati)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: испити́вати impf, испи́тати pf, преслуша́вати impf, прѐслушати pf

  Roman: ispitívati (sh) impf, ispítati (sh) pf, preslušávati (sh) impf, prèslušati (sh) pf

• Slovak: vypočúvať impf
• Slovene: zasliševati impf, zaslišati pf, izpraševati impf, izprašati pf
• Spanish: interrogar (es)
• Swedish: förhöra (sv)
• Tajik: тергав кардан (tergav kardan), истинтоқ кардан (istintoq kardan), бозпурсӣ кардан (bozpursī kardan)
• Thai: สอบถาม (th) (sɔ̀ɔp-tǎam), ซักถาม (th) (sák-tǎam), ไถ่ (th) (tài), สอบปากคำ
• Turkish: sorguya çekmek (tr), sorgulamak (tr), soru sormak (tr), isticvap etmek, istinkak etmek
• Turkmen: sorag etmek
• Ukrainian: допи́тувати impf (dopýtuvaty), допита́ти pf (dopytáty)
• Uyghur: سوراق قىلماق‎ (soraq qilmaq)
• Uzbek: soʻroq qilmoq
• Vietnamese: thẩm vấn (vi), hỏi cung (vi)

Further reading

• “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

Etymology 1

Verb

interrogate

1. inflection of interrogare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

interrogate f pl

1. feminine plural of interrogato

Anagrams

• integratore, reintegrato

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Latin

Verb

interrogāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interrogō