mishap

English

mis- +‎ hap

mishap (plural mishaps)

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: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
  
  He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1,
  Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest,
  
  Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!

accident, mistake, or problem

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese: 意外
Mandarin: 意外 (zh) (yìwài), 閃失 (zh), 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), δυσημερία f (dusēmería), σύμπτωμα n (súmptōma)

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

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