surmise

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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɜːˈmaɪz/
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• General-American: /sɚˈmaɪz/
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• rhymes with -aɪz
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• CMU ARPABET: S ER0 M AY1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: предположение (predpoloženie) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Bulgarian: догадка (dogadka) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Chinese Mandarin: 推測 /推测 (tuīcè) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Czech: domněnka — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Czech: dohad — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Czech: hypotéza — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Dutch: vermoeden — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Finnish: ennakkoluulo — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Finnish: otaksuma — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Finnish: oletus — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• German: Vermutung — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• German: Mutmaßung — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Hungarian: sejtés — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Hungarian: feltételezés — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Hungarian: feltevés — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Persian: انگاشت (engâšt) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Persian: گمان (gomân) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Persian: پندار (pendâr) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Polish: domysł — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Portuguese: suspeita — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Russian: подозре́ние (podozrénije) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Russian: до́мысел (dómysel) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Russian: предположе́ние (predpoložénije) — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Slovak: domnienka — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Slovak: hypotéza — thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence
• Finnish: ajatus — Reflection; thought; posit
• Persian: گمان (gomân) — Reflection; thought; posit
• Persian: اندیشه (andiše) — Reflection; thought; posit
• Persian: بازتاب (bâztâb) — Reflection; thought; posit
• Portuguese: imaginação — Reflection; thought; posit
• Bulgarian: предполагам (predpolagam) — to imagine or suspect
• Czech: domnívat se — to imagine or suspect
• Czech: tušit — to imagine or suspect
• Czech: hádat — to imagine or suspect
• Dutch: gissen — to imagine or suspect
• Dutch: vermoeden — to imagine or suspect
• Finnish: otaksua — to imagine or suspect
• Finnish: olettaa — to imagine or suspect
• French: présumer — to imagine or suspect
• French: supposer — to imagine or suspect
• French: suspecter — to imagine or suspect
• German: vermuten — to imagine or suspect
• German: mutmaßen — to imagine or suspect
• German: annehmen — to imagine or suspect
• Hungarian: feltételez — to imagine or suspect
• Hungarian: vél — to imagine or suspect
• Hungarian: gyanít — to imagine or suspect
• Italian: supporre — to imagine or suspect
• Japanese: 推測する (suisoku suru) — to imagine or suspect
• Māori: māharahara — to imagine or suspect
• Norwegian Bokmål: formode — to imagine or suspect
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjette — to imagine or suspect
• Persian: گمان بردن (gomân bordan) — to imagine or suspect
• Polish: domyślać się — to imagine or suspect
• Polish: domyślić się — to imagine or suspect
• Portuguese: suspeitar — to imagine or suspect
• Russian: подозревать (podozrevatʹ) — to imagine or suspect
• Russian: предполага́ть (predpolagátʹ) — to imagine or suspect
• Russian: предположи́ть (predpoložítʹ) — to imagine or suspect
• Spanish: suponer — to imagine or suspect
• Spanish: conjeturar — to imagine or suspect
• Spanish: presumir — to imagine or suspect
• Swedish: förmoda — to imagine or suspect
• Swedish: gissa — to imagine or suspect
• Ukrainian: припуска́ти (prypuskáty) — to imagine or suspect
• Ukrainian: припусти́ти (prypustýty) — to imagine or suspect