traffic jam

English

A traffic jam.

Noun

traffic jam (plural traffic jams)

1. A situation in which road traffic accumulates until it is stationary or very slow.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 17:

     Victorian Londoners did not speak of 'traffic jams' - that term came from America after the First World War. They spoke rather of traffic 'locks' or 'blocks', and their prevalence would be one reason why Pearson began to direct his thoughts underground.

Synonyms

• jam
• snarl-up

Related terms

• tailback

Translations

situation in which all road traffic is stationary or very slow

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: اِزْدِحَام الْمُرُور m (izdiḥām al-murūr), اِخْتِنَاق مُرُورِيّ m (iḵtināq murūriyy)

  Hijazi Arabic: زحمة f (zaḥma)

• Armenian: խցանում (hy) (xcʻanum)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: ко́рак m (kórak), зато́р m (zatór)
• Bulgarian: задръ̀стване (bg) n (zadrǎ̀stvane)
• Catalan: embotellament
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 塞車／塞车 (yue) (sak¹ ce¹)

  Mandarin: 交通阻塞 (zh) (jiāotōng zǔsè), 塞車／塞车 (zh), 塞车 (zh) (sāichē), 堵車／堵车 (zh) (dǔchē), 堵车 (zh) (dǔchē)

• Czech: dopravní zácpa f, zácpa (cs) f
• Danish: trafikprop c
• Dutch: opstopping (nl) f, file (nl) f
• Esperanto: trafikŝtopiĝo
• Estonian: liiklusummik, ummik
• Faroese: ferðslutøppur m
• Finnish: seisova liikenne, liikennetukos, paha liikenneruuhka (fi)
• French: embouteillage (fr) m, bouchon (fr) m
• Georgian: საცობი (sacobi)
• German: Verkehrsstau (de) m, Stau (de) m, (short holdup, delay) Stockung f
• Greek: μποτιλιάρισμα (el) n (botiliárisma)
• Greenlandic: angallattut tattoqiuttut
• Hebrew: פְּקַק תְּנוּעָה
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: forgalmi dugó (hu), dugó (hu), közlekedési dugó (hu), torlódás (hu)
• Icelandic: umferðarteppa f
• Indonesian: kemacetan (id)
• Irish: plódú tráchta m, tranglam tráchta m
• Italian: ingorgo (it) m, ingorgo stradale m
• Japanese: 交通渋滞 (こうつうじゅうたい, kōtsū jūtai), 渋滞 (ja) (じゅうたい, jūtai), 雑踏 (ざっとう, zattō)
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• Kazakh: кептеліс (keptelıs)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 교통 체증 (gyotong chejeung) (交通滯症), 교통 혼잡 (gyotong honjap) (交通混雜)
• Latvian: sastrēgums m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: kesesakan trafik, kesesakan lalu lintas
• Mongolian: түгжрэл (mn) (tügžrel)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trafikkork (no) m, trafikk-kork m

  Nynorsk: trafikkork m, trafikk-kork m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: (colloquial) korek (pl) m
• Portuguese: engarrafamento (pt) m, congestionamento m
• Romanian: ambuteiaj (ro) n
• Romansch: stagnaziun dal traffic f, colonnas dad autos f
• Russian: про́бка (ru) f (próbka), зато́р (ru) m (zatór)
• Scottish Gaelic: stopadh trafaig m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: за́стој m

  Latin: zástoj (sh) m

• Slovak: dopravná zápcha f, zápcha (sk) f
• Spanish: embotellamiento (es) m, atasco (es) m (Spain), caravana (es) f (Spain), cola (es) f (Venezuela), fila (es) f (Guatemala), presa (es) f (Costa Rica), taco (es) m (Chile), tapón m (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico), trabazón m (El Salvador), tranca (es) f (Venezuela), trancón (es) m (Colombia, Ecuador), tráfico (es) m (Ecuador), tranque (es) m (Cuba, Panama)
• Swahili: mfungamano wa magari (sw)
• Swedish: bilkö (sv), trafikstockning (sv) c
• Thai: รถติด (rót-dtìt)
• Tigrinya: ጭቕጭቕ ትራፊክ (č̣əḳʰč̣əḳʰ tərafik), ጽቕጥቅጥ ትራፊክ (ṣəḳʰṭəḳṭ tərafik)
• Turkish: tıkanıklık (tr)
• Ukrainian: про́бка f (próbka), зато́р (uk) m (zatór)
• Vietnamese: ách tắc giao thông, tắc đường (North), kẹt xe (South)
• Welsh: tagfa draffig f

See also

• gapers' block
• gridlock
• stuck in traffic