English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of riddle

riddle

/noun/ पहेली; बूझ; बड़ी चलनी;
/verb/पहेली कहना; चलनी से चालना; रिड्डल;

Synonym puzzle; comprehension; riddel; ask a riddle;

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English Dictionary:

1. Riddle

[n.]

- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

2. Riddle

[v. i.]

- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

3. Riddle

[v. t.]

- To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
- To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
- To explain; to solve; to unriddle.