interrogation

interrogation

English

Etymology

From Middle English interrogacion, from Old French interrogacion, from Latin interrogātiō, from interrogō, from inter- (“between; among”) + rogō (“ask; request”). Equivalent to inter- + rogation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˌteɹ.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

interrogation (countable and uncountable, plural interrogations)

1. The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
   • 1936 April​, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “[Unfinished Poems.] Coriolan. I. Triumphal March.”, in Collected Poems 1909–1935, London: Faber & Faber […], published September 1954, OCLC 858724037, page 136:

     There is no interrogation in his eyes / Or in the hands, quiet over the horse's neck, / And the eyes watchful, waiting, perceiving, indifferent.

2. A question put; an inquiry.
3. (dated) A question mark.

Usage notes

• Generally used with the preposition under: "He is under interrogation about last night's events."

Related terms

• interrogate
• interrogative
• interrogator
• interrogatory
• rogation
• subrogation

Translations

act of interrogating or questioning

Arabic: تَحْقِيق مَعَ‎ m (taḥqīq maʿa), اِسْتِجْوَاب‎ (ar) m (istijwāb), إِسْتِنْطَاق‎ m (ʾistinṭāq) Armenian: հարցաքննություն (hy) (harcʿakʿnnutʿyun) Azerbaijani: dindirmə (az), sorğu-sual Belarusian: апыта́нне n (apytánnje), до́пыт m (dópyt) Bulgarian: ра́зпит (bg) m (rázpit) Catalan: interrogatori m Chinese: Mandarin: 疑問／疑问 (zh) (yíwèn) Czech: výslech (cs) m Danish: afhøre c, udspørge c, forhøre c Dutch: verhoor (nl) n, ondervraging (nl) f Esperanto: priaŭskulto Estonian: ülekuulamine Finnish: kuulustelu (fi) Georgian: დაკითხვა (daḳitxva) German: Befragung (de) f, (law) Vernehmung (de) f, (police) Verhör (de) n Hebrew: חֲקִירָה‎ f (khakirá) Hindi: पूछताछ (hi) f (pūchtāch) Hungarian: kihallgatás (hu), vallatás (hu) Indonesian: interogasi (id) Irish: ceistiú m, ceistiúchán m Italian: interrogazione (it) f Japanese: 尋問 (ja) (じんもん, jinmon), 聴取 (ja) (ちょうしゅ, chōshu), 取り調べ (ja) (とりしらべ, torishirabe) Kazakh: жауап алу (jauap alu) Khmer: ការសួរចំឡើយ (kaa suǝ cɑmlaəy) Korean: 심문(審問) (ko) (simmun), 개물음 (gaemureum) Kyrgyz: допрос (dopros), сурак (ky) (surak) Latvian: nopratināšana f Lithuanian: apklausa f Macedonian: сослушување n (soslušuvanje), испитување n (ispituvanje) Mongolian: Cyrillic: байцаалт (mn) (bajcaalt) Norwegian: Bokmål: forhør n, avhør n Persian: بازجویی‎ (fa) (bâzjuyi), استنطاق‎ (fa) (estentâq), بازپرسی‎ (fa) (bâzpursi) Polish: przesłuchanie (pl) n, interrogacja (pl) f Portuguese: interrogatório (pt) m Romanian: interogare (ro) f Russian: опро́с (ru) m (oprós), допро́с (ru) m (doprós) (police) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: испити́ва̄ње n Roman: ispitívānje (sh) n Slovak: výsluch m, vypočúvanie n Slovene: zaslišanje n, izpraševanje n Spanish: interrogatorio (es) m Swedish: förhör (sv) n Tajik: тергав (tergav), истинток (istintok), пурсиш (pursiš), бозпурсӣ (bozpursī) Thai: please add this translation if you can Turkish: sorgu (tr) Turkmen: sorag Ukrainian: до́пит m (dópyt), о́пит (uk) m (ópyt) Uyghur: سوراق قىلىش‎ (soraq qilish) Uzbek: soʻroq (uz), soʻroq qilish Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

question put; an inquiry

Bulgarian: запи́тване (bg) n (zapítvane) Danish: afhøring (da) c, udspørgning c, forhør n Hungarian: kikérdezés (hu), tudakozódás Italian: interrogazione (it) f Polish: zapytanie (pl) m, badanie (pl) m, interrogacja (pl) f Portuguese: interrogação (pt) f Spanish: interrogación (es) f Swedish: utfrågning (sv) c

point, mark, or sign

Bulgarian: въпроси́телна (bg) f (vǎprosítelna) Danish: spørgsmålstegn (da) n German: Fragezeichen (de) n Polish: znak zapytania (pl) m, pytajnik (pl) m Portuguese: interrogação (pt) f Spanish: signo de interrogación m

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interrogātiō. Synchronically analysable as interroger +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/, /ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

interrogation f (plural interrogations)

1. questioning, interrogation
2. (grammar) interrogative, question
3. (computing) query
4. examen, often unexpected

Derived terms

• point d'interrogation

Further reading

• “interrogation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.