obstacle

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Old French obstacle.

Pronunciation

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Noun

obstacle (plural obstacles)

1. 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

• impediment
• hindrance
• hurdle
• See also Wikisaurus:hindrance

Translations

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

• Arabic: عقبة (ar) (ʿáqaba) f
• Armenian: խոչընդոտ (hy) (xočëndot) , արգելք (hy) (argelk') 
• Aromanian: cheadicã (rup) f
• Catalan: obstacle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 障礙 (cmn), 障碍 (cmn) (zhàng'ài), 妨礙 (cmn), 妨碍 (cmn) (fáng'ài)

• Czech: překážka (cs) f
• Dutch: obstakel (nl) n
• Finnish: este (fi)
• French: obstacle (fr)
• Galician: obstáculo (gl) m
• German: Hindernis (de) n
• Hebrew: מכשול (he) m
• Hungarian: akadály (hu)
• Ido: obstaklo (io)
• Italian: ostacolo (it) m
• Japanese: 障害 (ja) (しょうがい, shōgai), 邪魔 (ja) (じゃま, jama)
• Kannada: ವಿಘ್ನ (vighna)

• Kazakh: тосқауыл (kk) (tosqawıl) 
• Korean: 방해물 (ko) (banghaemul)
• Latin: mora (la)
• Lithuanian: kliūtis (lt)
• Ottoman Turkish: عائق (â’ik)
• Polish: trudność (pl) f, przeszkoda (pl) f
• Portuguese: obstáculo (pt) m
• Romanian: obstacol (ro), piedică (ro)
• Russian: препятствие (ru) (prepjátstvije) n , помеха (ru) (poméxa) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: amaladh (gd) m, bacadh (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре̏прека (sh) f

  Roman: prȅpreka (sh) f

• Spanish: obstáculo (es) m
• Swedish: hinder (sv) n
• Telugu: ఆటంకం (aaTankam), అడ్డం (aDDam)
• Turkish: engel (tr), ket (tr), mahzur (tr), mani (tr)

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French

Etymology

From Latin obstaculum, from obstō

Pronunciation

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Noun

obstacle m (plural obstacles)

1. obstacle