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
Zhaklina	-	Macedonian, Bulgarian
Hephaistos	-	Greek Mythology
Dunja	DOO-nyah (Serbian, Croatian)	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene
Wazo	-	Ancient Germanic
Bao	-	Chinese
Hilda	HIL-də (English), HIL-dah (German, Dutch)	English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish, Anglo-Saxon (Latinized), Ancient German