dead-end street; cul-de-sac · dead end (something that does not lead one to the intended result) · impasse (stagnation that one can only overcome by fundamentally changing one’s approach)
köken: Compound of 行(い)き (iki, “going”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 行(い)く (iku, “to go”)) + 止(と)まり (tomari, “stopping”, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 止(と)まる (tomaru, “to stop”)). The tomari changes to domari as an instance of rendaku (連濁). As a noun, first attested in 1686.
blind alley, cul-de-sac, dead end, impasse, no through road (street or path that goes nowhere) · blind alley, cul-de-sac, dead end, impasse, no through road (deadlock or stalemate situation)
blind alley, cul-de-sac, dead end, impasse (street or passageway that leads nowhere) · dead end, deadlock, impasse, stalemate (situation in which no progress can be made)
dead-end, blind alley, cul-de-sac, impasse (a street that leads nowhere) · impasse (a deadlock or stalemate situation in which no progress can be made)
çekim: çoğul zsákutcák
köken: From zsák (“sack”) + utca (“street”), calque of German Sackgasse (“dead-end”, literally “sack-street”), from Sack (“sack”) + Gasse (“street”).