köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin poledrus (“a sharp-edged frame on which the suspect's feet were weighed down”), from Ancient Greek πῶλος (pôlos, “foal”).
question (interrogation by torture) · question (sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response) · issue, matter, topic, problem
çekim: çoğul questions
eş: interrogation
köken: Inherited from Middle French and Old French question (12th c.), borrowed from Latin quaestiō. At first a learned word, therefore retaining preconsonantal -s- (compare related quête).
aile: en question, foire aux questions, hors de question, j'ai une question, mettre en question, pas question, question fermée, question ouverte, question partielle, question piège
köken: Not attested in Middle Persian, but compare شکن (šikan-, “to break”). Akin to Manichaean Parthian 𐫀𐫢𐫞𐫏𐫗𐫋 (ʾšqynj /iškenǰ/, “twisted rope”, attested only once), perhaps related to 𐫀𐫢𐫐𐫗 (ʾškn /iškenn-/, “to break”).
aile: شکنجه کردن, شکنجهگر
هر آن روزی که گفتم شادمانم شِکَنْجَه گشت شادی بر روانم
köken: From Arabic عَذَاب (ʕaḏāb), probably via Persian عذاب ('azâb). Cognate with Bashkir ғазап (ğazap), Turkish azap, Kyrgyz азап (azap), Tatar газап (ğazap), Uzbek azob, etc.
audition, casting (performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent) · interrogation (act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry)