traffic jam

English

A traffic jam.

Noun

traffic jam (plural traffic jams)

A situation in which road traffic accumulates until it is stationary or very slow.

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) (xcʿanum)
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 (yue) (sak¹ ce¹)

Mandarin: 交通阻塞 (zh) (jiāotōng zǔsè), 塞車 (zh), 塞车 (zh) (sāichē)
Czech: dopravní zácpa f, zácpa (cs) f
Danish: trafikprop c
Dutch: opstopping (nl) f, file (nl) f
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
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)

Kazakh: кептеліс (keptelis)
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), tranque (es) m (Cuba, Panama)
Swahili: mfungamano wa magari (sw)
Swedish: bilkö (sv), trafikstockning (sv) c
Thai: รถติด (rót-dtìt)
Tigrinya: ጭቕጭቕ ትራፊክ (č̣əḳʰč̣ḳʰ trafik), ጽቕጥቅጥ ትራፊክ (ṣəḳʰṭḳṭə trafik)
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

traffic jam

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