provocation

Etymology
From, from , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something
 * 2) Something that provokes; a provocative act
 * 3)  The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
 * When it's time to check for provocation, ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.

Usage notes
Usually followed by of, to, or for: provocation of violence (less common:to, rare:for), provocation to war (less common: of, for).

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, اِسْتِفْزَاز
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: provokasiya,
 * Belarusian: правака́цыя
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: provoko
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პროვოკაცია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: gríosú, saighdeadh
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: provokācija, provocēšana
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: провокација
 * Malay:
 * Persian: پرووکاسیون
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: провока́ција
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: provokácia
 * Slovene: provokacija
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: prowokacija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: اَشْتِعال, اَشْتِعال اَنگیزی
 * Welsh: cythrudd, pryfociad
 * Yiddish: פראוועקאציע

Etymology
, from.