From en.wiktionary.org:
[Puzzle]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
Origin [en]; originally [en]. Possibly from [en]. The verb (1590s) “to
perplex” seems to predate the noun “state of being perplexed” (circa 1600),
“perplexing question” (1650s), “toy” (1814).[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [pŭzʹəl] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of .
2. A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.
3. A crossword puzzle .
4. A jigsaw puzzle .
5. A riddle .
6. [en] Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.
7. The state of being puzzled; perplexity .
**** Synonyms
- [anything difficult to understand or make sense of] anybody's guess , anyone's guess , conundrum , enigma , mystery
- [game for one person] brain-teaser , poser
- [crossword puzzle] crossword , crossword puzzle
- [jigsaw puzzle] : jigsaw , jigsaw puzzle
- [riddle] guessing game , riddle
**** Derived terms
<!--DERIVED FROM THE NOUN--> {{col3|en|Chinese puzzle|piece of the
puzzle|puzzle lock |15 puzzle|burr puzzle|Chinese finger puzzle|floor
puzzle|lawyer's puzzle|puzzle box|puzzle cube|puzzle
ring|puzzle-monkey|puzzle-peg|twisty puzzle|xword puzzle|zigsaw puzzle
|crossword puzzle |jigsaw puzzle |monkey puzzle|puzzle game|vanishing puzzle
|puzzle out |puzzle over |puzzled |puzzlement |Puzzle Palace |puzzler|food
puzzle|Parsons puzzle|puzzle canon |puzzling|puzzle jug }}
**** Descendants
- [ko]
**** Translations
[anything difficult to understand or make sense of]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bhojpuri: [bho]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khiamniungan Naga: [kix]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[game for one person]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] < !-- was " trò chơi đố " - assumed sum-of-parts; if an idiom, remove the wikilinks to the individual words. see User:Kephir/gadgets/xte#Translation_fixing -->, [vi]
[trans-bottom]
[crossword puzzle]
[jigsaw puzzle]
[riddle]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Thai: [th]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
[trans-bottom]
<!--Remove this section once all of the translations below have been moved
into the tables above.--> [checktrans-top]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Slovak: [1] [sk] , [1] [sk] , [1] [sk] , [3] [sk]
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To perplex , confuse , or mystify ; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.
2. * [edition=5th]
3. * [para=II]
4. * [date=2 February 1712]
5. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1927 | author= F. E. Penny (see http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2416183A)
|chapter=4|title=Pulling the Strings (see
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16814587W) |passage=The case was that of a
murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was PUZZLING
the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also
a staff.}}
1. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=2004 |author=w:George Carlin |title=w:When Will Jesus Bring the Pork
Chops? |url=https://archive.org/details/sacredmountainof0000john/
|location=New York, N.Y. |publisher=w:Hyperion Books |isbn=1-4013-0821-X
|page=261
|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/whenwilljesusbri00hype/page/261/
|text=When it comes to God’s existence, I’m not an atheist and I’m not an
agnostic. I’m an acrostic. The whole thing PUZZLES me.}}
1. [en] To think long and carefully in bewilderment .
2. [en] To make intricate or difficult to resolve ; to entangle .
3. * [i]
4. * [passage=They disentangle from the PUZZLED skein.]
**** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:confuse
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en |puzzled |puzzle out |puzzle over |puzzle through |puzzler
|puzzling<pos:adjective><qq:noun> }}
**** Translations
[to perplex]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl] , [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es]
[trans-bottom]
*** Related terms
- [en]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Online_Etymology_Dictionary]
[2]. [R:cs:Rejzek 2007]
[3]. _puzzle_ in Internetová jazyková příručka (see http://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?slovo=puzzle) , Institute of the Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
[4]. [author=]
[5]. Miképpen kell kiejteni és toldalékolni a _puzzle_ szót? (see https://e-nyelv.hu/2009-09-07/puzzle/) (“How is the word _puzzle_ to be pronounced and inflected?”) answered by _E-nyelv.hu,_ based on [R:OsirisHelyes 2006]
[6]. _puzzle_ toldalékolása (see https://e-nyelv.hu/2012-09-02/puzzle-toldalekolasa/) (“inflection of _puzzle_ ”) answered by _E-nyelv.hu_
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Czech
*** Etymology
[cs].[2]
*** Pronunciation
- [pazl]
- [nonstandard] [pucle]
*** Noun
[m-in]
1. jigsaw puzzle
**** Usage notes
Also used as an indeclinable noun of various genders, most often neuter.[3]
Although the standard pronunciation of this word, which has been borrowed from
English, is [/ˈpazl̩/], another common informal pronunciation is [/ˈput͡sle/],
which is a [en], trying to apply either Italian (as in [it]) or more probably
German pronunciation rules.[4] However, both Italian and German pronunciation
of the word _puzzle_ is different.
**** Declension
_when masculine:_ [m.foreign] _Indeclinable when neuter or feminine._
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Online_Etymology_Dictionary]
[2]. [R:cs:Rejzek 2007]
[3]. _puzzle_ in Internetová jazyková příručka (see http://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?slovo=puzzle) , Institute of the Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
[4]. [author=]
[5]. Miképpen kell kiejteni és toldalékolni a _puzzle_ szót? (see https://e-nyelv.hu/2009-09-07/puzzle/) (“How is the word _puzzle_ to be pronounced and inflected?”) answered by _E-nyelv.hu,_ based on [R:OsirisHelyes 2006]
[6]. _puzzle_ toldalékolása (see https://e-nyelv.hu/2012-09-02/puzzle-toldalekolasa/) (“inflection of _puzzle_ ”) answered by _E-nyelv.hu_
[cs]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [peŭzeule]
- [fr]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. jigsaw puzzle
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
[fr]
** Hungarian
[Kirakós játék]
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [hu].
*** Pronunciation
- [pázl̩] [also with a short _[ a]_]
- [hu] [cannot be hyphenated]
- [hu]
*** Noun
[-ök][5][6]
1. jigsaw puzzle
**** Declension
[puzzle-o][puzzle-] or [puzzle-ö][puzzle-] or <ref name="enyelv1"/><ref
name="enyelv2"/> [puzzle-][puzzle-]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|hu |puzzle-darab |puzzle-ozik [or] puzzle-özik }}
*** See also
- [hu]
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Online_Etymology_Dictionary]
[2]. [R:cs:Rejzek 2007]
[3]. _puzzle_ in Internetová jazyková příručka (see http://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?slovo=puzzle) , Institute of the Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
[4]. [author=]
[5]. Miképpen kell kiejteni és toldalékolni a _puzzle_ szót? (see https://e-nyelv.hu/2009-09-07/puzzle/) (“How is the word _puzzle_ to be pronounced and inflected?”) answered by _E-nyelv.hu,_ based on [R:OsirisHelyes 2006]
[6]. _puzzle_ toldalékolása (see https://e-nyelv.hu/2012-09-02/puzzle-toldalekolasa/) (“inflection of _puzzle_ ”) answered by _E-nyelv.hu_
** Italian
*** Etymology
[it].
*** Pronunciation
[pàddzol]
*** Noun
[m]
1. jigsaw puzzle
2. [it] a difficult problem
*** References
References:
[1]. [R:Online_Etymology_Dictionary]
[2]. [R:cs:Rejzek 2007]
[3]. _puzzle_ in Internetová jazyková příručka (see http://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/?slovo=puzzle) , Institute of the Czech Language of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
[4]. [author=]
[5]. Miképpen kell kiejteni és toldalékolni a _puzzle_ szót? (see https://e-nyelv.hu/2009-09-07/puzzle/) (“How is the word _puzzle_ to be pronounced and inflected?”) answered by _E-nyelv.hu,_ based on [R:OsirisHelyes 2006]
[6]. _puzzle_ toldalékolása (see https://e-nyelv.hu/2012-09-02/puzzle-toldalekolasa/) (“inflection of _puzzle_ ”) answered by _E-nyelv.hu_
** Polish
[lang=pl]
*** Etymology
[pl], with a hyperforeign alternative pronunciation.
*** Pronunciation
[puzle,pucle < a:nonstandard>]
*** Noun
[nv-p]
1. jigsaw puzzle [type of puzzle in which the aim is to reconstruct a picture that has been cut (originally, with a jigsaw) into many small interlocking pieces]
**** Declension
[lemma=puzzel]
**** Derived terms
[pl]
*** Noun
[pl]
1. [pl]
*** Further reading
- [92688]
- [R:pl:PWN]
- [R:pl:PWN Encyclopedia]
[pl]
** Portuguese
*** Etymology
[pt].
*** Pronunciation
[br=pâzol]
*** Noun
[m]
1. jigsaw puzzle
*** Further reading
- [R:pt:Infopédia]
- [R:pt:Michaelis]
- [R:pt:Priberam]
** Romanian
*** Etymology
[ro].
*** Noun
[n]
1. [en]
**** Declension
[pl=puzzle-uri]
** Spanish
*** Alternative forms
- [es]
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. jigsaw puzzle
**** Usage notes
The current RAE recommended spelling is _puzle_.
** Turkish
*** Alternative forms
- [tr]
*** Etymology
[tr].
*** Pronunciation
- [tr]
*** Noun
[puzzle'ı]
1. jigsaw puzzle
*** Further reading
- [R:tr:Nişanyan]
[tr]