mishap

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ hap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs.hæp/

Noun

mishap (plural mishaps)

1. An accident, mistake, or problem.

   Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.

2. Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
   • c. 1593 William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest,

     Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!

Translations

accident, mistake, or problem

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese: 意外

  Mandarin: 意外 (zh) (yìwài), 閃失／闪失 (zh) (shǎnshī), 闪失 (zh) (shǎnshī)

• Dutch: ongeluk (nl) n, vergissing (nl) f, probleem (nl) n, pech (nl) m
• Finnish: kommellus
• French: erreur (fr) f, accident (fr) m
• German: Missgeschick (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: συμφορά f (sumphorá), , σύμπτωμα n (súmptōma)

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• Italian: contrattempo (it) m, incidente (it) m
• Khmer: គ្រោះ (km) (krʊəh)
• Russian: несча́стье (ru) n (nesčástʹje), неуда́ча (ru) f (neudáča)
• Spanish: percance (es) m
• Swedish: missöde (sv) n
• Turkish: aksilik (tr), kaza (tr), talihsizlik (tr)

Verb

mishap (third-person singular simple present mishaps, present participle mishapping, simple past and past participle mishapped)

1. (archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.