hurdle

Etymology 1


From, , , , from , diminutive of , from , from Pre-Germanic , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
 * 2)  An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
 * 3) A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
 * 4)  A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.
 * 5) * 1855,, , Part II, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, pp. 250-51,
 * Behind flock'd wrangling up a piteous crew, / Greeted of none, disfeatur'd and forlorn— / Cowards, who were in sloughs interr'd alive: / And round them still the wattled hurdles hung / Wherewith they stamp'd them down, and trod them deep, / To hide their shameful memory from men.
 * 1)  A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.
 * 2) * 1855,, , Part II, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, pp. 250-51,
 * Behind flock'd wrangling up a piteous crew, / Greeted of none, disfeatur'd and forlorn— / Cowards, who were in sloughs interr'd alive: / And round them still the wattled hurdles hung / Wherewith they stamp'd them down, and trod them deep, / To hide their shameful memory from men.
 * 1) * 1855,, , Part II, in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, pp. 250-51,
 * Behind flock'd wrangling up a piteous crew, / Greeted of none, disfeatur'd and forlorn— / Cowards, who were in sloughs interr'd alive: / And round them still the wattled hurdles hung / Wherewith they stamp'd them down, and trod them deep, / To hide their shameful memory from men.
 * Behind flock'd wrangling up a piteous crew, / Greeted of none, disfeatur'd and forlorn— / Cowards, who were in sloughs interr'd alive: / And round them still the wattled hurdles hung / Wherewith they stamp'd them down, and trod them deep, / To hide their shameful memory from men.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:hindrance

Translations

 * Arabic: حَاجِز
 * Belarusian: перашко́да, бар'е́р
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: tõke
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: ὑπέραλμα
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: cliath
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Latvian: barjera
 * Lithuanian: barjeras
 * Macedonian: пречка, препрека
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hekk,
 * Nynorsk: hekk
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пре̏пона, пре̏прека
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: prekážka
 * Slovene: prepreka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: перешко́да,, перепо́на, прити́чина
 * Vietnamese:


 * Arabic: عَقَبَة, حَاجِز
 * Belarusian: перашко́да, перагаро́да, перапо́на
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: forhindring
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: constaic
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 장애물(障礙物), ,
 * Lao:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: kliūtis
 * Macedonian: пречка, препрека
 * Occitan:, , barradissa
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Hindaniss
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пре̏пона, пре̏прека
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: prekážka
 * Slovene: prepreka,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: перешко́да, прити́чина, перегоро́да, перепо́на


 * Arabic: حَاجِز
 * Belarusian: пляце́нь
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Flechtzaun
 * Alemannic German: Färrich
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: cliath
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: pāhikohiko
 * Occitan:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:

Verb

 * 1) To jump over something while running.
 * 2) To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
 * 3) To overcome an obstacle.
 * 4) To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
 * 1) To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Finnish:
 * German: Hürden laufen


 * Finnish: voittaa este, ylittää este
 * German: eine Hürde nehmen


 * Bulgarian: ограждам с плет
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Spanish: