tough nut to crack, hard nut to crack · Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hart, Nuss.
çekim: çoğul harte Nüsse · tamlayan harter Nuss
🔊 Die letzte Frage im Radioquiz war wirklich eine harte Nuss.
brainteaser, puzzle · headache, problem · warclub
eş: assommoir, puzzle
köken: From casser + tête.
riddle
çekim: çoğul acertijos
köken: From acertar + -ijo.
enigma, riddle, conundrum
çekim: çoğul enigmi
eş: anagramma, busillis, gioco enigmistico, indovinello, quiz, rebus
köken: Borrowed from Latin ænigma, from Ancient Greek αἴνιγμα (aínigma).
Rusça 🔊 головоло́мка , зага́дка
brain-teaser, puzzle
çekim: çoğul başsındıranlar · tamlayan başsındıranın
köken: Present participle compound of baş (“head”) + sındırmaq (“to break”). Calque of Russian головоло́мка (golovolómka).
puzzle, brainteaser, brain twister · conundrum
çekim: çoğul башватҡыстар · tamlayan башватҡыстың
köken: баш "head" + ват- "to break" + -ҡыс "tool suffix". Calqued from Russian головоломка (golovolomka) ("brainteaser").
a particularly difficult puzzle or problem
çekim: çoğul hersenbrekers
eş: raadsel, puzzel, probleem
köken: Compound of hersenen (“ brain”) + breken (“to break”) + -er.
Portekizce 🔊 adivinha (dişil) /a.d͡ʒiˈvĩ.ɲɐ/ riddle · female equivalent of adivinho (“fortune-teller”)
çekim: çoğul adivinhas
köken: Deverbal from adivinhar (“to guess”).
puzzle (game for one or more people) · puzzle, riddle (problem difficult to understand)
çekim: çoğul łamigłówki · tamlayan łamigłówki
eş: układanka, zagadka, trudny problem
köken: From łamać + -i- + główka. Calque of French casse-tête.
aile: łamigłówkowy
riddle, puzzle, enigma (a verbal puzzle or mystery) · puzzle, enigma (anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of) · conundrum, brain-teaser (difficult question, puzzle or riddle)
çekim: çoğul arvoitukset · tamlayan arvoituksen
köken: arva- + -oittaa + -us
aile: arvoituksellinen, kuva-arvoitus, sana-arvoitus
riddle, puzzle
çekim: çoğul hádanky · tamlayan hádanky
eş: kvíz, enigma
köken: From hádán + -ka.
Macarca 🔊 rejtvény , találós kérdés /ˈrɛjtveːɲ/ puzzle (anything difficult to understand or make sense of)
çekim: çoğul rejtvények
köken: rejt + -vény
aile: betűrejtvény, keresztrejtvény, képrejtvény, rejtvényfejtés, rejtvényfejtő
Danca 🔊 gåde , ordgåde (nötr) /ˈɡɔːðə/ a riddle, puzzle (entertaining task, e.g. a tricky question, a rebus or a picture puzzle where you have to guess or connect the correct answer) · a mystery, conundrum
çekim: çoğul gåder · tamlayan gådes
köken: From Norwegian gåte. Replaced gættelse and mørktale.
riddle, conundrum, puzzle · mystery, enigma
çekim: çoğul зага́дки
riddle, puzzle
çekim: çoğul hádanky · tamlayan hádanky
Katalanca 🔊 endevinalla , envitricollament (dişil) /ən.də.viˈna.ʎə/ riddle
çekim: çoğul endevinalles
köken: From endevinar (“to guess”) + -alla.
Galiçyaca 🔊 adiviña , deviñanza (dişil) /aðɪˈβiɲɐ/ riddle · female equivalent of adiviño (“clairvoyant, fortuneteller”)
çekim: çoğul adiviñas
köken: Deverbal from adiviñar.
mystery, enigma, riddle, conundrum
çekim: çoğul առեղծվածներ
köken: From Old Armenian առեղծուած (aṙełcuac).
a difficult question or puzzle, a brain-teaser, a quiz
köken: Compound of -chemsha (“to boil”) + bongo (“brain”).
🔊 Shabaha ya chemsha bongo ni kukuza msamiati wa mwanafunzi na kumpa fursa ya kufurahia Kiswahili.
riddle, conundrum · enigma
çekim: çoğul enigmoj
köken: From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek αἴνιγμα (aínigma, “speaking in riddles”).
Makedonca 🔊 га́танка , за́гатка
Sicilyaca 🔊 nimma , nnivinagghia /ˈnim.ma/ Unintelligible talking. · A riddle, or a difficult problem.
çekim: çoğul nimmi
köken: From the apheresis of Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek αἴνιγμα (aínigma, “dark saying, speaking in riddles”).
aile: nimmàticu, nimmìstica
🔊 Parrari a nimma.