puzzle

Etymology
Origin ; originally. Possibly from. The verb (1590s) “to perplex” seems to predate the noun “state of being perplexed” (circa 1600), “perplexing question” (1650s), “toy” (1814).

Noun

 * 1) Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.
 * 2) A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
 * 3) A crossword puzzle.
 * 4) A jigsaw puzzle.
 * 5) A riddle.
 * 6)  Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
 * 7) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.
 * 1) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.

Synonyms

 * anybody's guess, anyone's guess, conundrum, enigma, mystery
 * brain-teaser, poser
 * crossword, crossword puzzle
 * : jigsaw, jigsaw puzzle
 * guessing game, riddle

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, أُحْجِيَّة,
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: башватҡыс
 * Belarusian: зага́дка
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: gåde
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: mõistatus
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: თავსატეხი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , राज़, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: жұмбақ
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:, , 난문(難問)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: noslēpums, mīkla
 * Lithuanian: mįslė
 * Macedonian: за́гатка
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠣᠨᠢᠰᠤᠭ᠎ᠠ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Pashto: معما
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dubh-fhacal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за̏гоне̄тка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: záhada
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tatar: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: پہیلی, راز, معما
 * Uyghur: تېپىشماق
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:, , , ,
 * Welsh: pos


 * Arabic: أُحْجِيَّة,, بَازْل
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: башватҡыс
 * Belarusian: галавало́мка
 * Bulgarian: главоблъ́сканица,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 猜謎游戲, 智力游戲
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: თავსატეხი თამაში
 * German:, Geduldspiel,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: púsl
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ល្បែងផ្គុំរូប
 * Korean: 퍼즐, 짝맞추기
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: за́гатка
 * Maori: panga
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за̏гоне̄тка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: головоло́мка,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Arabic:, أُحْجِيَّة,
 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: йомаҡ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: gáta
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 謎々, 判じ物, ,
 * Macedonian: га́танка
 * Malay: teka-teki
 * Maori: panga
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dubh-fhacal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за̏гоне̄тка
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Georgian:
 * Slovak:,  ,  ,

Verb

 * 1)  To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.
 * 2)  To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.
 * We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.
 * 1)  To make intricate; to entangle.
 * 1)  To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.
 * We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.
 * 1)  To make intricate; to entangle.
 * We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.
 * 1)  To make intricate; to entangle.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:confuse

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:, , in de war brengen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: durcheinander bringen,
 * Italian:
 * Maori: whakapōkaikaha, whakapōkīkī
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish:, dejar perplejo,

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jigsaw puzzle

Usage notes
Also used as an indeclinable noun of various genders, most often neuter.

Although the standard pronunciation of this word, which has been borrowed from English, is, another common informal pronunciation is , which is a , trying to apply either Italian (as in ) or more probably German pronunciation rules. However, both Italian and German pronunciation of the word puzzle is different.

Declension
when masculine:

Indeclinable when neuter or feminine.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jigsaw puzzle

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) jigsaw puzzle

Declension
or

or

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jigsaw puzzle
 * 2)  a difficult problem

Etymology
, with a hyperforeign alternative pronunciation.

Noun

 * 1) jigsaw puzzle

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jigsaw puzzle

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jigsaw puzzle

Usage notes
The recommended spelling is puzle.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) jigsaw puzzle