• (GA) IPA: /ɪnˈkwaɪɹ/
• (RP) IPA: /ɪnˈkwaɪə/

inquire (inquires, present participle inquiring; past and past participle inquired) (ambitransitive)

1. (intransitive, US) To ask (about something).
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0124 ↗:

     "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. […] A strong man—a strong one; and a heedless." ¶ "Of what party is he?" she inquired, as though casually.

2. (intransitive) To make an inquiry or an investigation.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To call; to name.

   • Canute had his portion from the rest, The which he call'd Canutium, for his hire, Now Cantium, which Kent we commonly inquire.

• frain qual dialect or obsolete

• inquiry
• query

• French: enquêter, renseigner
• German: erkundigen, nachfragen
• Portuguese: inquirir
• Russian: спра́шивать
• Spanish: investigar, informarse