intrigue

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Borrowed from French intrigue, from Italian intricare, from Latin intrīcō (“to entangle, perplex, embarrass”). Doublet of intricate.

128 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: دَسِيسَة (dasīsa) — plot or scheme
• Armenian: բանսարկություն (bansarkutʻyun) — plot or scheme
• Belarusian: інтры́га (intrýha) — plot or scheme
• Bulgarian: интри́га (intríga) — plot or scheme
• Bulgarian: машина́ция (mašinácija) — plot or scheme
• Catalan: intriga — plot or scheme
• Chinese Mandarin: 密謀 /密谋 (mìmóu) — plot or scheme
• Chinese Mandarin: 陰謀 /阴谋 (yīnmóu) — plot or scheme
• Czech: intrika — plot or scheme
• Czech: pleticha — plot or scheme
• Danish: intrige — plot or scheme
• Dutch: intrige — plot or scheme
• Esperanto: intrigo — plot or scheme
• Estonian: intriig — plot or scheme
• Finnish: juoni — plot or scheme
• Finnish: salajuoni — plot or scheme
• French: intrigue — plot or scheme
• Georgian: ინტრიგა (inṭriga) — plot or scheme
• German: Intrige — plot or scheme
• Greek: ραδιουργία (radiourgía) — plot or scheme
• Greek: μηχανορραφία (michanorrafía) — plot or scheme
• Greek: δολοπλοκία (doloplokía) — plot or scheme
• Hindi: साज़िश (sāziś) — plot or scheme
• Hindi: षड्यंत्र (ṣaḍyantra) — plot or scheme
• Hungarian: intrika — plot or scheme
• Hungarian: ármány — plot or scheme
• Hungarian: áskálódás — plot or scheme
• Hungarian: cselszövés — plot or scheme
• Icelandic: brögð — plot or scheme
• Italian: intrigo — plot or scheme
• Japanese: 陰謀 (inbō) — plot or scheme
• Korean: 음모 (eummo) — plot or scheme
• Latvian: intriga — plot or scheme
• Lithuanian: intriga — plot or scheme
• Macedonian: спле́тка (splétka) — plot or scheme
• Macedonian: и́нтрига (íntriga) — plot or scheme
• Māori: kara — plot or scheme
• Norwegian Bokmål: intrige — plot or scheme
• Persian: دسیسه (dasise) — plot or scheme
• Persian: انتریگ (antrig) — plot or scheme
• Persian: فتنه (fetne) — plot or scheme
• Polish: intryga — plot or scheme
• Portuguese: intriga — plot or scheme
• Romanian: intrigă — plot or scheme
• Russian: интри́га (intríga) — plot or scheme
• Serbo-Croatian: спле̏тка — plot or scheme
• Serbo-Croatian: ѝнтрӣга — plot or scheme
• Serbo-Croatian: splȅtka — plot or scheme
• Serbo-Croatian: ìntrīga — plot or scheme
• Slovak: intriga — plot or scheme
• Slovene: spletka — plot or scheme
• Spanish: intriga — plot or scheme
• Swedish: intrig — plot or scheme
• Tagalog: pungka — plot or scheme
• Tajik: дасиса (dasisa) — plot or scheme
• Tajik: фитна (fitna) — plot or scheme
• Turkish: entrika — plot or scheme
• Ottoman Turkish: فتنه (fitne) — plot or scheme
• Ottoman Turkish: فساد (fesâd) — plot or scheme
• Ukrainian: інтри́га (intrýha) — plot or scheme
• Uzbek: fitna — plot or scheme
• Bulgarian: интри́га (intríga) — the plot of a play
• Catalan: intriga — the plot of a play
• French: intrigue — the plot of a play
• Greek: πλοκή (plokí) — the plot of a play
• Macedonian: сиже́ (sižé) — the plot of a play
• Macedonian: фа́була (fábula) — the plot of a play
• Polish: fabuła — the plot of a play
• Russian: сюже́т (sjužét) — the plot of a play
• Russian: фа́була (fábula) — the plot of a play
• Spanish: argumento — the plot of a play
• Turkish: dolantı — the plot of a play
• Bulgarian: интри́га (intríga) — clandestine intercourse
• Bulgarian: та́йна любо́вна връ́зка (tájna ljubóvna vrǎ́zka) — clandestine intercourse
• Polish: romans — clandestine intercourse
• Polish: schadzka — clandestine intercourse
• Bulgarian: интриганствам (intriganstvam) — to plan
• Bulgarian: сплетнича (spletniča) — to plan
• Catalan: intrigar — to plan
• Chinese Mandarin: 搞陰謀 /搞阴谋 (gǎo yīnmóu) — to plan
• Chinese Mandarin: 密謀 /密谋 (mìmóu) — to plan
• Danish: intrigere — to plan
• Dutch: intrigeren — to plan
• Esperanto: intrigi — to plan
• Finnish: juonitella — to plan
• French: intriguer — to plan
• French: conspirer — to plan
• German: intrigieren — to plan
• Hungarian: intrikál — to plan
• Hungarian: ármánykodik — to plan
• Hungarian: áskálódik — to plan
• Hungarian: cselt sző — to plan
• Italian: intrigare — to plan
• Macedonian: у́мисли (úmisli) — to plan
• Macedonian: кро́и (krói) — to plan
• Macedonian: проекти́ра (proektíra) — to plan
• Māori: whakangārahu — to plan
• Polish: planować — to plan
• Polish: zaplanować — to plan
• Portuguese: intrigar — to plan
• Russian: стро́ить ко́зни (stróitʹ kózni) — to plan
• Russian: замышля́ть (zamyšljátʹ) — to plan
• Russian: замы́слить (zamýslitʹ) — to plan
• Spanish: intrigar — to plan
• Swedish: intrigera — to plan
• Bulgarian: интригувам (intriguvam) — to arouse interest
• Catalan: intrigar — to arouse interest
• Chinese Mandarin: 引起奇心 (yǐnqǐ qíxīn) — to arouse interest
• Dutch: intrigeren — to arouse interest
• Finnish: kiehtoa — to arouse interest
• French: intriguer — to arouse interest
• German: faszinieren — to arouse interest
• Italian: intrigare — to arouse interest
• Macedonian: интереси́ра (interesíra) — to arouse interest
• Macedonian: заинтереси́ра (zainteresíra) — to arouse interest
• Macedonian: интриги́ра (intrigíra) — to arouse interest
• Macedonian: заинтриги́ра (zaintrigíra) — to arouse interest
• Macedonian: ко́пка (kópka) — to arouse interest
• Macedonian: за́копка (zákopka) — to arouse interest
• Persian: شیفته کردن (šifte kardan) — to arouse interest
• Polish: intrygować — to arouse interest
• Polish: zaintrygować — to arouse interest
• Portuguese: intrigar — to arouse interest
• Russian: интригова́ть (intrigovátʹ) — to arouse interest
• Russian: заинтригова́ть (zaintrigovátʹ) — to arouse interest
• Russian: интересова́ть (interesovátʹ) — to arouse interest
• Russian: заинтересова́ть (zainteresovátʹ) — to arouse interest
• Spanish: intrigar — to arouse interest