riddle

Etymology 1
From, , from , , from. Analyzable as. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
 * 2) An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
 * 1) An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
 * 1) An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
 * 1) An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
 * 1) An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
 * 1) An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: raaisel
 * Albanian:, gjëagjëzë,
 * Arabic:, أُحْجِيَّة,
 * Egyptian Arabic: فزّورة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: সাঁথৰ
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Belarusian: зага́дка
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: gåde
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: mõistatus
 * Faroese: gáta
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: adiviñanza, cousiliña, adiviña
 * Georgian: გამოცანა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: αἴνιγμα, γρῖφος
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , , राज़, , ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ingrian: arvoitos
 * Irish: tomhas
 * Italian: ,
 * Ivatan: kabbuni
 * Japanese:, 謎々
 * Kapampangan: bugtung
 * Kazakh: жұмбақ
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladino: endevinas
 * Latin: aenigma
 * Latvian: mīkla
 * Lithuanian: mįslė
 * Macedonian: га́танка, загатка
 * Malay: teka-teki
 * Maori: panga, pere
 * Mirandese: adebina
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:, , charrada
 * Pashto: معما
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dubh-fhacal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: за̏гоне̄тка, енигма
 * Roman:, enigma
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , , quisicosa
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bugtong
 * Tajik: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: پہیلی, معما
 * Uyghur: تېپىشماق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: pos
 * Yakan: untukan

Verb

 * 1) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
 * 2)  To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Kapampangan: ibugtungan
 * Russian: ,

Etymology 2
From, , from , alteration of earlier , , from , from , , from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
 * 2) A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Verb

 * 1) To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
 * 2) To fill with holes like a riddle.
 * 3) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
 * 1) To fill with holes like a riddle.
 * 2) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
 * 1) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
 * 1) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech: prosít
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Irish: rill
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Bulgarian:, правя на решето
 * Czech: proděravět
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 3
From, , , , from "a plaited stuff; curtain"; > Medieval Latin, from , from. More at. Doublet of.

Noun

 * 1)  A curtain; bedcurtain.
 * 2)  One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.

Etymology 4
From, from the noun (see above).

Verb

 * 1)  To plait.