pique curiosity

pique someone's curiosity

and pique someone's interest

to arouse interest; to arouse curiosity. The advertisement piqued my curiosity about the product. The professor tried to pique the students' interest in French literature.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ignatiy	-	Russian
Nanaya	-	Near Eastern Mythology
Valentin	VAH-len-teen (German), vah-lyen-TEEN (Russian), vah-leen-TEEN (Russian)	French, Romanian, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian,
Knox	[nɔks]
ÈRic	-	Catalan
Katharine	KATH-ə-rin (English), KATH-rin (English), kah-tah-REE-nə (German)	English, German