besiege

English

Etymology

From Middle English besegen, bisegen, equivalent to be- (“around, about”) +‎ siege.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈsiːd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -iːdʒ
• Hyphenation: be‧siege

Verb

besiege (third-person singular simple present besieges, present participle besieging, simple past and past participle besieged)

1. (transitive) To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
2. (transitive, figurative) To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
3. to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.

Translations

to surround with armed forces

• Arabic: حاصر‎
• Asturian: asediar
• Catalan: assetjar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 圍攻 (zh), 围攻 (zh) (wéigōng)

• Czech: obléhat
• Danish: belejre
• Dutch: belegeren (nl)
• Finnish: piirittää (fi), motittaa (fi)
• French: assiéger (fr)
• Galician: asediar, sitiar, cercar
• German: belagern (de)
• Greek: πολιορκώ (el) (poliorkó)

  Ancient: πολιορκέω (poliorkéō)

• Hungarian: ostromol (hu)
• Ido: siejar (io)
• Indonesian: mengepung (id)
• Interlingue: assediar
• Italian: assediare (it)

• Latin: obsideō
• Luxembourgish: belageren
• Maori: pāhau, pakipaki, awhi, pōrohe
• Ngazidja Comorian: uzingiza
• Norman: assiégi
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: beleire

  Norwegian Nynorsk: omleire

• Polish: oblegać (pl)
• Portuguese: cercar (pt), sitiar, assediar (pt)
• Quechua: intuy
• Romanian: împresura (ro)
• Russian: осажда́ть (ru) impf (osaždátʹ), осади́ть (ru) pf (osadítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan sèist air
• Slovene: oblegati
• Spanish: asediar (es), sitiar (es)
• Swedish: belägra (sv)
• Telugu: చుట్టుముట్టు (te) (cuṭṭumuṭṭu)

to vex, to attack continually

• Danish: belejre
• German: belagern (de)
• Ido: siejar (io)
• Italian: assediare (it)
• Maori: pāhau, pakipaki
• Portuguese: cercar (pt), assediar (pt)

• Russian: осажда́ть (ru) impf (osaždátʹ), осади́ть (ru) pf (osadítʹ), окружа́ть (ru) impf (okružátʹ), окружи́ть (ru) pf (okružítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan sèist air
• Spanish: asaeteado (es)
• Swedish: belägra (sv)

to assail or ply

• Dutch: belagen (nl)
• French: assaillir (fr)

• German: belagern (de)
• Portuguese: assediar (pt)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} обсаждам (bg) (obsaždam), ^{(please verify)} обкръжавам (bg) (obkrǎžavam)

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} imdhruid

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German

Verb

besiege

1. inflection of besiegen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I