double mill · dilemma; Catch-22; quagmire; predicament; quandary (position in which one will suffer great disadvantage however one reacts) · A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
çekim: çoğul Zwickmühlen · tamlayan Zwickmühlen
eş: Dilemma
köken: Alteration of older Fickmühle, a compound of ficken + Mühle, in which ficken is used in the archaic sense of “to slide”. The alteration was without doubt driven by the need to avoid the vulgar verb. Formally it may be due to conflation with an unattested *Zwiemühle from zwie- (“double”), as well as to association with zwicken (“to pinch”).
morass · morass, quagmire
çekim: çoğul bourbiers
köken: From bourbe + -ier.
difficulty, predicament · shortage · urgency, rush, hurry
çekim: çoğul apuros
köken: Deverbal from apurar.
aile: damisela en apuros, pasar apuros
🔊 Estuve en un apuro financiero.
🔊 salir de un apuro
🔊 No hay apuro.
thicket (especially of juniper); briar-patch · a difficult or intricate situation
çekim: çoğul gineprai
eş: fratta, macchia, roveto, pruneto, difficoltà, garbuglio
köken: From ginepro + -aio.
swamp, marsh
çekim: çoğul باتلاقها
köken: Borrowed from Turkic, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *batgak. Compare Ottoman Turkish باتاق (batak), Turkish batak, and Tatar batqaq.
aile: باطلاقی
quicksand · a treacherous, tricky danger or risk
eş: kwikzand, stuifzand
köken: From drijven (“to drift”) + zand (“sand”).
🔊 Hij kwam in drijfzand terecht en wist zich met moeite eruit te bevrijden.
🔊 De economie is bezig in het drijfzand van de stagflatie te verzeilen.
quagmire · morass
çekim: çoğul atoleiros
eş: atolador, atoledo, atoladouro
köken: From atolar + -eiro.
muddy swamp; bog · the situation in which one is stuck (as if in a bog)
köken: From 泥(どろ) (doro, “mud”) + 沼(ぬま) (numa, “swamp”).
aile: 泥沼化
swamp, marsh · lake
çekim: çoğul träsks · tamlayan träsks
köken: From Old Swedish þræsk (compare traska), of onomatopoeic origin.
aile: Bastuträsk, Bockträsk, Burträsk, Fjollträsk, Glommersträsk, Kalvträskskidan, Klöverträsk, Korsträsk, Pauträsk, Ragvaldsträsket
🔊 träskmonster
swamp, marsh, bog · marsh rosemary (Rhododendron tomentosum and the whole Rhododendron subsect. Ledum) · quagmire (demoralizing situation)
çekim: çoğul bagna · tamlayan bagna
eş: bagnisko, mokradło, błota, trzęsawisko, grzęzawisko, topiel
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Slavic *bagno Old Polish bagno Polish bagno Inherited from Old Polish bagno.
aile: bagnisty, bagiennie, bagienność, bagniak, bagnica, bagnistość, bagnoznawstwo, bażyna, zabagniać, zabagnić
🔊 bagno zwyczajne
jam, bind, dire straits
çekim: çoğul kiipelit · tamlayan kiipelin
köken: Borrowed from Russian ги́бель (gíbelʹ, “doom”), from Old East Slavic гыбель (gybelĭ), from Proto-Slavic *gybělь, from *gyb- + *-ělь.
🔊 olla kiipelissä
pickle, trouble
çekim: çoğul šlamastyky · tamlayan šlamastyky
eş: brynda, polízanice, malér, patálie, kaše, svízel
köken: Borrowed from German Schlamastik.