investigation

See also: Investigation

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˌvɛstəˈɡeɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

investigation (countable and uncountable, plural investigations)

1. The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination

   The investigation into the crime has led to various leads as well as plenty of dead ends.

   Despite thorough investigation, the perpetrator of the attacks remains unknown.

Related terms

• investigate

Translations

the act of investigating

• Arabic: تَحْقِيق‎ m (taḥqīq)

  Hijazi Arabic: تَحْقِيق‎ m (taḥgīg)

• Armenian: հետաքննություն (hy) (hetakʿnnutʿyun)
• Asturian: investigación f
• Azerbaijani: təhqiqat (az), istintaq
• Belarusian: рассле́даванне n (rassljédavannje), дасле́даванне n (dasljédavannje)
• Bulgarian: разсле́дване (bg) n (razslédvane)
• Catalan: investigació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調查 (zh), 调查 (zh) (diàochá)

• Czech: (primarily legal) vyšetřování (cs) n
• Danish: efterforskning c
• Dutch: onderzoek (nl), nasporing (nl)
• Finnish: tutkimus (fi), selvitys (fi)
• French: investigation (fr) f
• Galician: investigación (gl) f
• Georgian: გამოძიება (gamoʒieba)
• German: Untersuchung (de) f
• Greek: έρευνα (el) f (érevna), διερεύνηση (el) f (dierévnisi)
• Hungarian: nyomozás (hu), vizsgálat (hu)
• Indonesian: investigasi (id), penyelidikan (id)
• Irish: fiosrúchán m

• Italian: investigazione (it) f
• Japanese: 調査 (ja) (ちょうさ, chōsa)
• Korean: 조사 (ko) (josa)
• Latin: quaestiō f, indagatio, investigatio
• Malay: penyiasatan
• Maori: rapunga, mātaitanga, tūhuratanga, hurahuratanga, whakatewhatewha
• Norman: èrchèrchéthie f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: etterforskning (no) m or f, etterforsking m or f

  Nynorsk: etterforsking f

• Polish: śledztwo (pl) n, dochodzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: investigação (pt) f
• Romanian: investigație (ro) f
• Russian: сле́дствие (ru) n (slédstvije), рассле́дование (ru) n (rasslédovanije), иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije)
• Sanskrit: परीक्षा (sa) f (parīkṣā)
• Spanish: investigación (es) f
• Swedish: undersökning (sv)
• Telugu: విచారణ (te) (vicāraṇa)
• Turkish: inceleme (tr), soruşturma (tr), tahkikat (tr)
• Ukrainian: розслі́дування n (rozslíduvannja), дослі́дження (uk) n (doslídžennja)
• Vietnamese: sự điều tra (vi)

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French

Etymology

From Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ɡa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

investigation f (plural investigations)

1. investigation, examination

Further reading

• “investigation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Interlingua

Noun

investigation (plural investigationes)

1. investigation