bottleneck

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From bottle + neck.

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عُنُق الزُّجَاجَة (ʕunuq az-zujāja) — neck of a bottle
• Bashkir: шешә ауыҙы (şeşə awıźı) — neck of a bottle
• Catalan: coll d'ampolla — neck of a bottle
• Chinese Mandarin: 瓶頸 /瓶颈 (píngjǐng) — neck of a bottle
• Czech: hrdlo lahve — neck of a bottle
• Danish: flaskehals — neck of a bottle
• Dutch: flessenhals — neck of a bottle
• Finnish: pullonkaula — neck of a bottle
• French: goulot — neck of a bottle
• French: goulot de bouteille — neck of a bottle
• French: tête de bouteille — neck of a bottle
• Galician: gorgozo — neck of a bottle
• German: Flaschenhals — neck of a bottle
• Hungarian: palacknyak — neck of a bottle
• Icelandic: flöskuháls — neck of a bottle
• Icelandic: stútur — neck of a bottle
• Irish: scrogall — neck of a bottle
• Irish: scrogall buidéil — neck of a bottle
• Italian: collo di bottiglia — neck of a bottle
• Japanese: 瓶の首 (bin no kubi) — neck of a bottle
• Macedonian: грло на шише (grlo na šiše) — neck of a bottle
• Malay: cerutan — neck of a bottle
• Malay: kejejalan — neck of a bottle
• Mongolian: лонхны хүзүү (lonxny xüzüü) — neck of a bottle
• Norwegian Bokmål: flaskehals — neck of a bottle
• Norwegian Nynorsk: flaskehals — neck of a bottle
• Polish: szyjka — neck of a bottle
• Portuguese: gargalo — neck of a bottle
• Russian: го́рлышко буты́лки (górlyško butýlki) — neck of a bottle
• Russian: го́рлышко (górlyško) — neck of a bottle
• Serbo-Croatian: грлић — neck of a bottle
• Serbo-Croatian: grlić — neck of a bottle
• Spanish: cuello de botella — neck of a bottle
• Swedish: flaskhals — neck of a bottle
• Uyghur: جوغا (jogha) — neck of a bottle
• Bashkir: тар урын (tar urın) — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Catalan: coll d'ampolla — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Catalan: embús — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Catalan: embussament — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Czech: zúžení — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Czech: úzké hrdlo — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Danish: flaskehals — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Finnish: pullonkaula — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• German: Engstelle — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• German: Flaschenhals — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• German: Engpass — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Hungarian: útszűkület — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Icelandic: þrengsli — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Irish: caolas tráchta — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Irish: scrogall tráchta — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Italian: collo di bottiglia — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Italian: strettoia — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Italian: strozzatura — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Italian: imbuto — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Japanese: 隘路 (airo) — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Macedonian: стесну́вање (stesnúvanje) — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Malay: cerutan — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Malay: kejejalan — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Norwegian Bokmål: flaskehals — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Norwegian Nynorsk: flaskehals — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Persian: گلوگاه (galugâh) — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Polish: zwężenie — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Portuguese: engarrafamento — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Russian: суже́ние (sužénije) — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Russian: у́зкий прохо́д (úzkij proxód) — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Russian: у́зкое ме́сто (úzkoje mésto) — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Russian: дефиле́ (defilé) — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Serbo-Croatian: сужење — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Serbo-Croatian: suženje — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Spanish: cuello — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Spanish: garganta — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Spanish: embotellamiento — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Spanish: boquerón — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Spanish: gollete — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Spanish: cuello de botella — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Spanish: estrangulamiento — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Spanish: embudo — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Swedish: flaskhals — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Tagalog: salangkipot — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Tagalog: pagsisikip — narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay
• Bashkir: тар урын (tar urın) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Catalan: coll d'ampolla — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Catalan: embús — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Catalan: embussament — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Chinese Mandarin: 耽誤 /耽误 (dānwu) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Czech: úzké místo — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Danish: flaskehals — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Dutch: bottleneck — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Dutch: knelpunt — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Finnish: pullonkaula — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• French: goulet d'étranglement — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• German: Engpass — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• German: Flaschenhals — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Ancient Greek: ἀπορία (aporía) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Hungarian: szűk keresztmetszet — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Irish: bac — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Italian: collo di bottiglia — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Italian: strettoia — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Italian: strozzatura — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Italian: imbuto — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Japanese: ボトルネック (botorunekku) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Japanese: ネック (nekku) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Macedonian: за́стој (zástoj) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Norwegian Bokmål: flaskehals — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Norwegian Nynorsk: flaskehals — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Polish: wąskie gardło — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Portuguese: gargalo — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Russian: у́зкое ме́сто (úzkoje mésto) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Russian: про́бка (próbka) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Russian: зато́р (zatór) — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Serbo-Croatian: уско грло — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Serbo-Croatian: usko grlo — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Spanish: cuello de botella — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Spanish: atasco — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Swedish: flaskhals — part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome
• Finnish: ruuhkauttaa — to slow by causing a bottleneck
• Finnish: ruuhkautua — to form a bottleneck