obstacle

English

Etymology

From Old French obstacle, from Latin obstāculum.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒbstəkl/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

obstacle (plural obstacles)

Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.

Synonyms

Translations

something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress

Arabic: عَقَبَة‎ m (ʿaqaba)
Armenian: խոչընդոտ (hy) (xočʿəndot), արգելք (hy) (argelkʿ)
Aromanian: cheadicã f, ambodyiu m
Belarusian: перашко́да f (pjeraškóda), паме́шка f (pamjéška)
Bulgarian: препя́тствие (bg) n (prepjátstvie)
Catalan: obstacle (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 障礙 (zh), 障碍 (zh) (zhàng'ài), 妨礙 (zh), 妨碍 (zh) (fáng'ài)
Czech: překážka (cs) f
Danish: forhindring c
Dutch: obstakel (nl) n, belemmering (nl) f
Esperanto: obstaklo
Finnish: este (fi)
French: obstacle (fr)
Galician: obstáculo m
German: Hindernis (de) n
Greek: εμπόδιο (el) n (empódio), πρόσκομμα (el) n (próskomma)
Ancient: κώλυμα n (kṓluma)
Hebrew: מכשול‎ (he) m
Hungarian: akadály (hu)
Ido: obstaklo (io)
Irish: constaic f
Italian: ostacolo (it) m, inciampo (it) m
Japanese: 障害 (ja) (しょうがい, shōgai), 邪魔 (ja) (じゃま, jama)
Kannada: ವಿಘ್ನ (kn) (vighna)
Kazakh: тосқауыл (tosqawıl)
Korean: 방해물 (ko) (banghaemul)
Latin: obstantia f, ōbex m or f, mora

Latvian: šķērslis (lv) m
Lithuanian: kliūtis
Macedonian: пречка f (prečka)
Maori: taunahua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hinder (no) n, hindring m or f

Nynorsk: hinder n, hindring f
Ottoman Turkish: عائق‎ (â’ik)
Polish: trudność (pl) f, przeszkoda (pl) f
Portuguese: obstáculo (pt) m
Quechua: hark'ay
Romanian: obstacol (ro), piedică (ro)
Russian: препя́тствие (ru) n (prepjátstvije), поме́ха (ru) f (poméxa)
Scottish Gaelic: amaladh m, bacadh m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пре̏прека f

Roman: prȅpreka (sh) f
Slovak: prekážka f
Slovene: ovira (sl) f
Southern Altai: буудак (buudak)
Spanish: obstáculo (es) m, óbice (es), traba (es), estorbo (es)
Swedish: hinder (sv) n
Tagalog: balakid (tl), harang (tl)
Telugu: ఆటంకం (te) (āṭaṅkaṃ), అడ్డం (te) (aḍḍaṃ)
Thai: อุปสรรค (th) (ùp-bpà-sàk), ขวากหนาม (th) (kwàak-nǎam)
Tigrinya: ዕንቅፋት (ʿənḳfat)
Turkish: engel (tr), ket (tr), mahzur (tr), mani (tr)
Ukrainian: перешко́да f (pereškóda), перепо́на f (perepóna)
Welsh: rhwystr m

Anagrams

Casebolt, costable

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin obstāculum.

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /opsˈta.klə/

(Central) IPA^(key): /upsˈta.klə/

(Valencian) IPA^(key): /opsˈta.kle/

Noun

obstacle m (plural obstacles)

obstacle

Derived terms

obstaculitzar

Further reading

“obstacle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin obstaculum, from obstō

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔp.stakl/
audio (file)

Noun

obstacle m (plural obstacles)

obstacle

Further reading

“obstacle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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