investigation

See also: Investigation

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˌvɛstəˈɡeɪʃən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

NounEdit

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 lead to various leads as well as plenty of dead ends.

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

TranslationsEdit

the act of investigating

• Armenian: ինվեստիգացիոնիզմ (investigacʿionizm)
• Asturian: investigación f
• Azeri: təhqiqat (az)
• Catalan: investigació (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: (primarily legal) vyšetřování n
• Dutch: onderzoek (nl), nasporing
• 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)
• Indonesian: investigasi (id), penyelidikan (id)

• Irish: fiosrúchán m
• Italian: investigazione (it)
• Japanese: 調査 (ja) (ちょうさ, chōsa)
• Malay: penyiasatan
• Maori: rapunga, mātaitanga
• Norman: èrchèrchéthie f
• Norwegian:

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

  Nynorsk: etterforsking f

• Portuguese: investigação (pt) f
• Russian: сле́дствие (ru) n (slédstvije), рассле́дование (ru) n (rasslédovanije), иссле́дование (ru) n (isslédovanije)
• Spanish: investigación (es) f
• Swedish: undersökning (sv)
• Telugu: విచారణ (te) (vicāraṇa)
• Turkish: inceleme (tr), soruşturma (tr), tahkikat (tr)

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

  (file)

NounEdit

investigation f (plural investigations)

1. investigation, examination

Further readingEdit

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