enigma

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von enigma im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

{i} muamma

Rusya, bir muammanın içindeki gizemle sarılmış bir bilmece. - Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Bazen kendime bir muammayım. - Sometimes I am an enigma to myself.

anlaşılmaz şey

merak konusu

Relevante Übersetzungen

enigmatically

anlaşılmaz bir biçimde

enigmatically

gizemli bir şekilde

enigmatically

gizemli olarak

Türkisch - Türkisch

Definition von enigma im Türkisch Türkisch wörterbuch

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Englisch - Englisch

Definition von enigma im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A German device used during World War II to encode strategic messages

A riddle, or a difficult problem

Something puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable

a riddle

{n} a riddle, a dark or obscure question

A dark, obscure, or inexplicable saying; a riddle; a statement, the hidden meaning of which is to be discovered or guessed

{i} puzzle, riddle; puzzling person or thing

If you describe something or someone as an enigma, you mean they are mysterious or difficult to understand. Iran remains an enigma for the outside world. = mystery. someone or something that is strange and difficult to understand = mystery (aenigma, from , from ainos ). Device used by the German military to encode strategic messages before and during World War II. The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles in the early 1930s, so that German messages were eventually intercepted and deciphered by Allied code-breakers during the war. (See also Ultra.)

a difficult problem

An action, mode of action, or thing, which cannot be satisfactorily explained; a puzzle; as, his conduct is an enigma

something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

Relevante Übersetzungen

Enigma machine

a small portable electro-mechanical rotor machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages, made famous by Germany in WWII

Enigma machine

fig. something which decrypts or makes understandable something enigmatic (see quotation)

enigma canon

a canon in which the entrances of successive parts were indicated by cryptic symbols and devices (popular in the 15th and 16th centuries)

a riddle wrapped up in an enigma

Something very mysterious and hidden

enigmatically

Behaving mysteriously or strangely

enigmatically

{a} darkly, obscurely, doubtfully

enigmas

plural of enigma

enigmatically

Darkly; obscurely

enigmatically

Functioning in a way that is unexplainable

enigmatically

Acting in a manner that suggests an enigma

enigmatically

mysteriously, cryptically, in a puzzling manner, ambiguously

enigmatically

in a cryptic manner; "we will meet again," he said cryptically

Silbentrennung

e·nig·ma

Türkische aussprache

înîgmı

Synonyme

bewilderment, cliffhanger, conundrum, crux, cryptogram, gordian knot, grabber, knot, mind-boggler, mind-twister, mystification, parable, perplexity, problem, puzzle

Aussprache

/əˈnəgmə/ /ɪˈnɪɡmə/

Etymologie

() From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), from Ancient Greek αἴνιγμα (ainigma, “dark saying, riddle”).