Meaning

9 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.

    Rätsel, Mysterium, Enigma

    зага́дкаzagádka

    зага́дкаzahádka

  2. (countable, uncountable)A riddle, or a difficult problem.

    Rätsel, Knobelei, Rateaufgabe

    зага́дкаzagádka, головоло́мкаgolovolómka

    зага́дкаzahádka

    a difficult problem

  3. (countable, uncountable)Riddles and puzzles, collectively.

  4. (countable, uncountable)Mysteriousness; obscurity; a lack of clarity.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.

  6. (countable, uncountable)A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.

  7. (countable, uncountable)The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.

  8. (countable, uncountable)Any member of the species Oedaleonotus enigma of grasshoppers.

  9. (countable, uncountable)Any member of the species Heliothis enigma of rare moths.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Tom is an enigma.

    ruТом — человек-загадка.

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  2. Sometimes I am an enigma to myself.

    ruИногда я сам для себя непонятен.

    deManchmal bin ich mir selbst ein Fragezeichen.

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  3. He's always been an enigma to me.

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  4. What she said was an enigma to me.

    ruТо, что она сказала, было для меня загадкой.

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  5. I haven't found a solution to this enigma.

    ruЯ не нашёл решения этой загадке.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
something puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable:
Русский
By meaning 2
something puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable:
riddle, or a difficult problem:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
something puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable:
riddle, or a difficult problem:

Origin

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), being derived itself from the Ancient Greek verbal noun αἴν

From Latin aenigma (“riddle”), being derived itself from the Ancient Greek verbal noun αἴνιγμα (aínigma, “dark saying, speaking in riddles”).

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Forms

plural: enigmas / enigmata

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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