curious

Etymology 1
From, from , from. The English word is cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive;  nosy, prying.
 * 2) Caused by curiosity.
 * 3) Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
 * 4) * 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxi, leaf 232v
 * Thenne at the mete cam in Elyas the harper & by cause he was a curyous harper men herd hym synge the same lay that Dynadan had made
 * "Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made"
 * 1)  Careful, fastidious, particular;  demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1) Caused by curiosity.
 * 2) Leading one to ask questions about; somewhat odd, out of the ordinary, or unusual.
 * 3) * 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxi, leaf 232v
 * Thenne at the mete cam in Elyas the harper & by cause he was a curyous harper men herd hym synge the same lay that Dynadan had made
 * "Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made"
 * 1)  Careful, fastidious, particular;  demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1) * 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxi, leaf 232v
 * Thenne at the mete cam in Elyas the harper & by cause he was a curyous harper men herd hym synge the same lay that Dynadan had made
 * "Then at the meat came in Eliot the harper, and because he was a curious harper men heard him sing the same lay that Dinadan had made"
 * 1)  Careful, fastidious, particular;  demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Careful, fastidious, particular;  demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Careful, fastidious, particular;  demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Careful, fastidious, particular;  demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Careful, fastidious, particular;  demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Careful, fastidious, particular;  demanding a high standard of excellence, difficult to satisfy.
 * 2)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.
 * 1)  Carefully or artfully constructed; made with great elegance or skill.

Usage notes
The and  forms  and  are regarded as  or.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: nuuskierig
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: дапы́тлівы, ціка́вы, ціка́ўны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chamicuro: ka'sulujyaka
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: nysgerrig
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: scivola
 * Estonian: uudishimulik
 * Faroese: forvitin
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: curioso
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: περίεργος
 * Hebrew:, סקרנית
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: fiosrach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 호기심이 많은,
 * Latin: cūriōsus,
 * Latvian: ziņkārīgs, ziņkārs
 * Lithuanian: smalsus, žingeidus
 * Macedonian: љубопитен
 * Maori: māhirahira
 * Navajo: haalá nízin
 * Norman: tchuthieux
 * Norwegian:
 * Nynorsk: nyfiken, vitekjær
 * Old English: firwitt, firwitġeorn
 * Plautdietsch: nieschierich
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòrachail
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зна̏тиже̄љан, радо̀знао
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: zvedavý
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kiyuryus
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: допи́тливий,, знаттєлю́бний
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, chwilgar
 * Yiddish: טשיקאַווע


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: kuriøs, besynderlig, mærkværdig
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kurioza
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: aisteach
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 기이한
 * Lithuanian:, neįprastas
 * Macedonian: необичен, чуден
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: курйо́зний
 * Welsh: hynod,

Adjective

 * 1)  Containing or pertaining to trivalent curium.