traffic jam
English
Pronunciation
Noun
traffic jam (plural traffic jams)
- (road transport) A situation in which road traffic accumulates until it is stationary or very slow.
- Synonyms: snarl-up (UK, Australia, New Zealand); parking lot (US, figuratively, humorous
- Hypernyms: jam, jam-up
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.
1965 October 8, “If you are driving next week... these are the black spots to avoid”, in The Evening News and Star:Driving in London next week ? Then watch out for the big traffic-jam spots – the places where you may well face a wait if you cannot go another way.
Translations
situation in which all road traffic is stationary or very slow
- Albanian: mbingarkim (sq) m, bllokim trafiku m
- Arabic: اِزْدِحَام الْمُرُور m (izdiḥām al-murūr), اِخْتِنَاق مُرُورِيّ m (iḵtināq murūriyy)
- Egyptian Arabic: زحمة f (zaḥma)
- Hijazi Arabic: زحمة f (zaḥma)
- South Levantine Arabic: زحمة f (zaḥme), زحمة سير f (zaḥmet sēr), أزمة f (ʔazme)
- Armenian: խցանում (hy) (xcʻanum)
- Azerbaijani: tıxac (az)
- Basque: auto-ilara
- Belarusian: ко́рак m (kórak), зато́р m (zatór), даро́жны зато́р m (daróžny zatór)
- Bengali: যানজট (bn) (janojoṭ)
- Bulgarian: задръ́стване (bg) n (zadrǎ́stvane)
- Catalan: embós (ca) m, embús (ca) m, embotellament (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 塞車 / 塞车 (yue) (sak1 ce1)
- Mandarin: 交通阻塞 (zh) (jiāotōng zǔsè), 塞車 / 塞车 (zh) (sāichē), 堵車 / 堵车 (zh) (dǔchē)
- Cornish: daromdak m
- Czech: dopravní zácpa f, zácpa (cs) f
- Danish: trafikprop c
- Dutch: file (nl) f, opstopping (nl) f
- Esperanto: trafikŝtopiĝo
- Estonian: liiklusummik, ummik
- Faroese: ferðslutøppur m
- Finnish: seisova liikenne, liikennetukos, paha liikenneruuhka, ruuhka (fi)
- French: embouteillage (fr) m, bouchon (fr) m, congestion (fr) f, engorgement (fr) m
- Georgian: საცობი (sacobi)
- German: Stau (de) m, (formal) Verkehrsstau (de) m, Verkehrsinfarkt m (literally “traffic infarct”)
- Greek: μποτιλιάρισμα (el) n (botiliárisma)
- Greenlandic: angallattut tattoqiuttut
- Hebrew: פְּקַק תְּנוּעָה
- Hindi: चक्काजाम m (cakkājām)
- Hungarian: forgalmi dugó (hu), dugó (hu), közlekedési dugó (hu), torlódás (hu)
- Icelandic: umferðarteppa f
- Indonesian: kemacetan (id), macet (id)
- Irish: plódú tráchta m, tranglam tráchta m
- Italian: ingorgo (it) m, ingorgo stradale m
- Japanese: 交通渋滞 (ja) (こうつうじゅうたい, kōtsū jūtai), 渋滞 (ja) (じゅうたい, jūtai), 雑踏 (ja) (ざっとう, zattō)
- Kazakh: кептеліс (keptelıs)
- Khmer: ស្ទះចរាចរ (stĕəh cɑɑraacɑɑ)
- Korean: 교통 체증(交通滯症) (gyotong chejeung), 교통 혼잡(交通混雜) (gyotong honjap)
- Lao: ຈະຣາຈອນຄັບຄັ່ງ (cha rā chǭn khap khang)
- Latin: coacervātiō vehiculōrum f
- Latvian: sastrēgums m
- Lithuanian: eismo spūstis f, eismo grūstis f, kamštis m
- Macedonian: застој m (zastoj)
- Malay: kesesakan trafik (ms), kesesakan lalu lintas
- Māori: taero waka, inaki waka
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: түгжрэл (mn) (tügžrel)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: trafikkork (no) m, trafikk-kork m, bilkø m
- Nynorsk: trafikkork m, trafikk-kork m
- Pannonian Rusyn: застой m (zastoj)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: راهبَنْدان (râh-bandân)
- Polish: korek (pl) m, zator (pl) m, zastój (pl) m
- Portuguese: engarrafamento (pt) m, congestionamento (pt) m, trânsito (pt)
- Romanian: ambuteiaj (ro) n
- Romansh: stagnaziun dal traffic f, colonnas dad autos f
- Russian: про́бка (ru) f (próbka), зато́р (ru) m (zatór), автомоби́льная про́бка (ru) f (avtomobílʹnaja próbka), доро́жный зато́р m (doróžnyj zatór)
- Scottish Gaelic: stopadh trafaig m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: за́стој m
- Latin: zástoj (sh) m
- Slovak: dopravná zápcha f, zápcha (sk) f
- Slovene: zastoj m
- Spanish: embotellamiento (es) m, atasco (es) m, caravana (es) f, cola (es) f, fila (es) f, presa (es) f, taco (es) m, tapón (es) m, trabazón (es) m, tranca (es) f, trancón (es) m, tráfico (es) m, tranque (es) m, congestión de tránsito f, congestión vehicular f, trancadera f
- Swahili: mfungamano wa magari (sw)
- Swedish: bilkö (sv) c, trafikstockning (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagsisikip ng trapiko, trapik
- Tajik: роҳбандон (rohbandon), роҳбанд (rohband)
- Thai: รถติด (rót-dtìt)
- Tigrinya: ጭቕጭቕ ትራፊክ (č̣əx̣č̣əx̣ tərafik), ጽቕጥቅጥ ትራፊክ (ṣəx̣ṭəḳṭ tərafik)
- Turkish: tıkanıklık (tr), trafik sıkışıklığı
- Ukrainian: про́бка f (próbka), зато́р (uk) m (zatór), доро́жній зато́р m (doróžnij zatór)
- Urdu: جمود آمد و رفت (jumūd-e-āmad-o-raft), انجماد آمد و رفت (injimād-e-āmad-o-raft)
- Uzbek: tiqilinch (uz)
- Vietnamese: ách tắc giao thông, tắc đường (North), kẹt xe (South)
- Welsh: tagfa draffig f
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