Afrikaans ondersoek | ||
Albanian hetimi | ||
Amharic ምርመራ | ||
Arabic تحقيق | ||
Armenian հետաքննություն | ||
Assamese তদন্ত | ||
Aymara yatxataña | ||
Azerbaijani istintaq | ||
Bambara sɛgɛsɛgɛli kɛli | ||
Basque ikerketa | ||
Belarusian расследаванне | ||
Bengali তদন্ত | ||
Bhojpuri जांच के काम हो रहल बा | ||
Bosnian istraga | ||
Bulgarian разследване | ||
Catalan investigació | ||
Cebuano imbestigasyon | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 调查 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 調查 | ||
Corsican inchiesta | ||
Croatian istraga | ||
Czech vyšetřování | ||
Danish efterforskning | ||
Dhivehi ތަހުގީގު ކުރަމުންނެވެ | ||
Dogri जांच कीती | ||
Dutch onderzoek | ||
English investigation | ||
Esperanto esploro | ||
Estonian uurimine | ||
Ewe numekuku wɔwɔ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pagsisiyasat | ||
Finnish tutkinta | ||
French enquête | ||
Frisian ûndersyk | ||
Galician investigación | ||
Georgian გამოძიება | ||
German ermittlung | ||
Greek έρευνα | ||
Guarani investigación rehegua | ||
Gujarati તપાસ | ||
Haitian Creole ankèt | ||
Hausa bincike | ||
Hawaiian hoʻokolokolo | ||
Hebrew חֲקִירָה | ||
Hindi जाँच पड़ताल | ||
Hmong kev tshawb nrhiav | ||
Hungarian vizsgálat | ||
Icelandic rannsókn | ||
Igbo nyocha | ||
Ilocano imbestigasion | ||
Indonesian penyelidikan | ||
Irish imscrúdú | ||
Italian indagine | ||
Japanese 調査 | ||
Javanese investigasi | ||
Kannada ತನಿಖೆ | ||
Kazakh тергеу | ||
Khmer ការស៊ើបអង្កេត | ||
Kinyarwanda iperereza | ||
Konkani चवकशी करप | ||
Korean 조사 | ||
Krio invɛstigeshɔn we dɛn de du | ||
Kurdish lêkolînî | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) لێکۆڵینەوە | ||
Kyrgyz тергөө | ||
Lao ການສືບສວນ | ||
Latin inquisitio | ||
Latvian izmeklēšana | ||
Lingala bolukiluki ya mosala | ||
Lithuanian tyrimas | ||
Luganda okunoonyereza | ||
Luxembourgish enquête | ||
Macedonian истрага | ||
Maithili जांच के लिये | ||
Malagasy fanadihadiana | ||
Malay penyiasatan | ||
Malayalam അന്വേഷണം | ||
Maltese investigazzjoni | ||
Maori whakawakanga | ||
Marathi तपास | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯏꯅꯚꯦꯁ꯭ꯇꯤꯒꯦꯁꯟ ꯇꯧꯕꯥ꯫ | ||
Mizo chhui chian a ni | ||
Mongolian мөрдөн байцаалт | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေး | ||
Nepali अनुसन्धान | ||
Norwegian etterforskning | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) kufufuza | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଅନୁସନ୍ଧାନ | ||
Oromo qorannoo | ||
Pashto پلټنې | ||
Persian تحقیق و بررسی | ||
Polish dochodzenie | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) investigação | ||
Punjabi ਪੜਤਾਲ | ||
Quechua investigacion ruway | ||
Romanian anchetă | ||
Russian расследование | ||
Samoan suesuega | ||
Sanskrit अन्वेषणम् | ||
Scots Gaelic sgrùdadh | ||
Sepedi dinyakišišo | ||
Serbian истрага | ||
Sesotho lipatlisiso | ||
Shona kuferefeta | ||
Sindhi تحقيق | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) පරීක්ෂණයක් | ||
Slovak vyšetrovanie | ||
Slovenian preiskavo | ||
Somali baaritaanka | ||
Spanish investigación | ||
Sundanese panyilidikan | ||
Swahili uchunguzi | ||
Swedish undersökning | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pagsisiyasat | ||
Tajik тафтишот | ||
Tamil விசாரணை | ||
Tatar тикшерү | ||
Telugu దర్యాప్తు | ||
Thai ตรวจสอบ | ||
Tigrinya መርመራ ምግባር | ||
Tsonga vulavisisi | ||
Turkish araştırma | ||
Turkmen derňew | ||
Twi (Akan) nhwehwɛmu a wɔyɛ | ||
Ukrainian розслідування | ||
Urdu تحقیقات | ||
Uyghur تەكشۈرۈش | ||
Uzbek tergov | ||
Vietnamese cuộc điều tra | ||
Welsh ymchwiliad | ||
Xhosa uphando | ||
Yiddish ויספאָרשונג | ||
Yoruba iwadi | ||
Zulu uphenyo |
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "ondersoek" also means "research" or "inquiry". |
| Albanian | The word "hetimi" is derived from the Proto-Albanian word *het-, meaning "to search" or "to seek" |
| Amharic | The word ምርመራ also means "to smell" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "تحقيق" also means "making something true" or "realizing something." |
| Azerbaijani | The word "istintaq" in Azerbaijani originates from the Arabic word "istintaq", which means "inquiry" or "interrogation". |
| Basque | In Medieval Basque, the word “ikerketa” meant “to get to know.” |
| Belarusian | The Belarusian word "расследаванне" originates from the Russian word "расследование," which in turn originates from the Old Church Slavonic word "следъ," meaning "track" or "path." |
| Bengali | The word "তদন্ত" also refers to searching for a lost thing or a missing person. |
| Bosnian | The word 'istraga' in Bosnian also means 'exploration' or 'inquest', derived from the same root as 'istrazivati' (to investigate). |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "разследване" is derived from the Old Church Slavonic word "след" meaning "track", and is also related to the word "слêда" meaning "trail". |
| Catalan | Investigació' shares its Latin roots with the English word 'vestigation' meaning to follow or track. |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word 'imbestigasyon' is derived from the Spanish word 'investigación' and ultimately from the Latin word 'vestigare', meaning 'to trace' or 'to search'. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | Originally meant 'to seek a crime', now means 'to investigate'. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "調查" is a compound word formed from two Chinese characters: "調", which means to adjust or tune, and "查", which means to examine or inspect. |
| Corsican | Corsican ``inchiesta`` is derived from the italian word ``inchiesta``, which means ``investigation`` or ``enquiry``. |
| Croatian | The word 'istraga' is of Slavic origin and is related to the word 'traga', meaning 'trace' or 'path' |
| Czech | The word "vyšetřování" is derived from the verb "šetřit", meaning "to save", and the prefix "vy-", which gives it the meaning of "to examine" or "to investigate". |
| Danish | The word 'efterforskning' is derived from the Old Norse words 'eftir' (after) and 'forskning' (investigation or research), and can also refer to historical research, exploration, or police investigation. |
| Dutch | The word "onderzoek" is derived from Middle Dutch "ondsoek", meaning "inquiry" or "examination." |
| Esperanto | The word "esploro" is derived from an Esperanto root, meaning "to unfold" or "to show". |
| Estonian | In Estonian "uurimine" also means a "mine", a place where you extract minerals, like gold, from the Earth. |
| Finnish | "Tutkinta" is derived from the word "tutkia" meaning "to examine" or "to scrutinize". |
| French | The French word "enquête" comes from the Latin word "inquirere," which means "to seek" or "to inquire. |
| Frisian | The word "ûndersyk" in Frisian ultimately derives from the Old Saxon word "undirseokian," meaning "to search underneath." |
| Galician | The Galician word "investigación" also means "inquisition" and derives from the Latin word "Inquisitio". |
| German | Ermittlung shares its root with Ermittelung, meaning 'avoidance,' as well as with the Middle Low German 'ermieden,' meaning 'to avoid,' and 'ermittelen,' meaning 'to remove' or 'to prevent'. |
| Greek | "Έρευνα" in Greek, from "ἐρευνάω" ('ereunao'), originally meant "to dig up" or "to search thoroughly" |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "તપાસ" is derived from the Sanskrit root "tap," which means "to heat" or "to burn." |
| Haitian Creole | Haitian Creole "ankèt" can also mean "exam" and derives from French "enquête". |
| Hausa | Bincike is also a word used to refer to a microscope, magnifying glass, or any device used to magnify or aid in seeing small objects |
| Hawaiian | "Hoʻokolokolo" can refer to 'research' and other meanings that involve the process of investigation. |
| Hebrew | The word 'חֲקִירָה' also bears religious meaning, referring to a 'biblical examination' or 'study' of the Torah. |
| Hindi | **Jaanch padtaals** can also mean **enquiry** or **scrutiny**. |
| Hmong | "Kev tshawb nrhiav" is a compound word that literally translates to "asking and searching" in Hmong. |
| Hungarian | "Vizsgálat" can refer to a medical exam or an academic test. |
| Icelandic | Rannsókn's cognates include the words 'ransack' and 'ransom', which share its base meaning of 'searching' or 'taking by force'. |
| Igbo | In Nigerian Pidgin, "nyocha" is sometimes used to refer to gossip or news. |
| Indonesian | In Malaysian, the term "siasatan" is commonly used, but it is derived from the Arabic word "tafsīr", which usually refers to exegesis, interpretation, or commentary. |
| Irish | The second element comes from scrúdú "scrutiny, examination" (from Latin scrutinium). |
| Italian | "Indagine" derives from the Latin verb "indagare" meaning "to track, to trace". |
| Japanese | 調査 can mean either “investigation” or “survey”. |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "investigasi" may also refer to the act of scrutinizing something in great detail. |
| Kannada | The Kannada word "ತನಿಖೆ" can also refer to a specific type of legal inquiry conducted by a magistrate or police officer. |
| Kazakh | The term "тергеу" may also refer to a search, an inspection, or an exploration in Kazakh. |
| Korean | The word 조사 can also mean 'assistant' or 'surveyor', indicating its broader sense of 'gathering information' beyond criminal investigations. |
| Kurdish | The word "lêkolînî" in Kurdish originally meant "to look at", but now it also means "investigation". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "тергөө" ultimately derives from the Old Turkic word "terig" meaning "to search", "to inquire", or "to investigate". |
| Latin | "Inquisitio" was also used in the medieval legal system to refer to a formal inquiry or investigation carried out by a magistrate or other official. |
| Latvian | "Izmeklēšana" also means "inquiry" and "examination". |
| Lithuanian | The word "tyrimas" is also used in Lithuanian to refer to a medical examination or test. |
| Luxembourgish | In Luxembourgish, "Enquête" can also refer to a police investigation or a questionnaire. |
| Macedonian | The modern Macedonian word "истрага" derives from the Ottoman Turkish word for investigation, "istiğā". |
| Malagasy | Derived from "hadihady" (investigation) and "fandinihina" (research), it emphasizes thorough and comprehensive examination. |
| Malay | The word 'penyiasatan' is derived from the Malay word 'siasat', meaning 'to inquire or investigate,' and the suffix '-an', which forms nouns from verbs. |
| Malayalam | The Malayalam word "അന്വേഷണം" literally means "search for" or "ask after" and is often used in the context of inquiring about someone's well-being. |
| Maltese | "Investigazzjoni" is derived from the Latin word "investigatio," meaning "a tracking or pursuit; inquiry, examination," and is related to the verb "vestigare," meaning "to track, follow up, search out." |
| Maori | Whakawakanga has connotations of exploring an issue and making it clear, revealing, or uncovering. |
| Marathi | The origin of the word "तपास" ("investigation") can be traced to the Sanskrit term "tap" which implies heat, fervor, and the process of extracting the pure essence of substances. |
| Nepali | In Nepali, "अनुसन्धान" is also used in the context of academic research, referring to a comprehensive inquiry conducted to add to an existing body of knowledge in a particular field of study. |
| Norwegian | The Norwegian word "etterforskning" is derived from the Old Norse word "eftirspyrja", meaning "to inquire into, investigate". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | Kufufuza can also mean 'to search' or 'to inspect' something in Nyanja. |
| Pashto | The word "پلټنې" in Pashto also means "inquiry" or "examination". |
| Persian | This word is derived from Arabic and means 'inquiry' and 'research' in addition to 'investigation'. |
| Polish | The noun dochodzenie's root stems from dochodzić, which means 'to complete,' with the addition of the suffix -enie that forms action nouns. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | Portuguese "investigação" derives from Latin verb "investigare", meaning both "to search" and "to track". |
| Romanian | The word "anchetă" is a loan from the French "enquête", meaning a formal inquiry or investigation. |
| Russian | Расследование is also used in Russian to refer to the act of research or exploration. |
| Samoan | Samoan term "suesuega" can also refer to the "process of finding out someone's family". |
| Scots Gaelic | Derived from Old Irish scrúd and related to the word scrúdú ('scrutiny'), from an old Celtic root meaning 'to search thoroughly'. |
| Serbian | The word "истрага" is derived from the Proto-Slavic root *strogъ, meaning "to arrange" or "to set in order." |
| Sesotho | 'Lipatlisiso' stems from the root '-patlis-', meaning 'to look carefully' or 'to examine', and is related to the noun 'mapatlisiso', meaning 'scrutiny'. |
| Shona | The word "kuferefeta" in Shona is derived from the Proto-Bantu *kwerep, a word meaning to ask around and discover something. |
| Sindhi | تحقيق also means 'to make' or 'to do' in Sindhi. |
| Slovak | "Vyšetrovanie" is also used in the context of criminal investigations in Slovak."} |
| Slovenian | The word "preiskavo" in Slovenian also carries the meaning of "search" or "inquiry". |
| Somali | The word 'baaritaanka' is derived from the root verb 'baar', meaning 'to search' or 'to inquire' |
| Spanish | The term "investigación" can also mean a scientific journal published by a university or research institution. |
| Sundanese | The word 'panyilidikan' is derived from the root word 'silik', meaning 'to scrutinize or examine'. |
| Swahili | The word "uchunguzi" can also refer to a type of plant found in East Africa, known for its medicinal properties. |
| Swedish | The word "undersökning" can also mean "examination" or "inquiry". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | The word 'pagsisiyasat' can also refer to the act of inspecting or examining something. |
| Tajik | The word "тафтишот" (investigation) comes from the Persian word "tafteesh", which in turn is derived from the Arabic word "taftish" (to search or examine). |
| Tamil | "விசாரணை" (investigation) also means 'inquiry' in Tamil. |
| Telugu | The word దర్యాప్తు is derived from the Persian word 'daryāft' meaning 'to acquire knowledge'. |
| Thai | ตรวจสอบ (trutsop) also can means 'to check', 'to examine', 'to audit' |
| Turkish | In Ottoman Turkish "araştırmak" means "to make a judgment" or "to make a trial". |
| Ukrainian | The word "розслідування" comes from the Ukrainian word "слід", which means "track" or "trace". |
| Urdu | The word "تحقیقات" comes from Arabic and can also mean inquiries, studies, or research. |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "tergov" derives ultimately from the Persian word for "asking" and "investigation". |
| Vietnamese | Cuộc điều tra is the Vietnamese word for investigation, but it can also mean "investigation of a crime" or "inquiry". |
| Welsh | The word 'ymchwiliad' shares its root with 'chwilio', meaning 'seek' or 'search', in Welsh. |
| Xhosa | In some African languages like Xhosa, the word "uphando" can also refer to a "scientific research" or "inquiry" |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "ויספאָרשונג" can also mean "experiment" or "research". |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "iwadi" can also refer to a person's character or disposition. |
| Zulu | The Zulu word "uphenyo" can also refer to a judicial inquiry or a scientific experiment. |
| English | The word 'investigation' shares an etymological root with 'inquisition' and 'vestigial', suggesting a connection to searching, inquiry, and remains. |