embargo

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• General-American: /ɪmˈbɑɹɡoʊ/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪmˈbɑːɡəʊ/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)ɡəʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: EH0 M B AA1 R G OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Spanish embargar (“to arrest”), from late Latin *imbarricāre (“to bar”), from Latin in- + Vulgar Latin *barra (“bar, barrier”).

109 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حَصَار (ḥaṣār) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Belarusian: эмба́рга (embárha) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Catalan: embargament — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Catalan: embarg — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Chinese Mandarin: 封港令 (fēnggǎnglìng) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Czech: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Esperanto: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Estonian: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Finnish: saarto — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• French: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• German: Embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• German: Beschlagnahme — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Hebrew: אֶמְבַּרְגּוֹ (embárgo) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Hebrew: חֵרֶם (khérem) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Icelandic: hafnbann — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Ido: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Japanese: 出港停止 (shukkō teishi) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Korean: 출항정지 (chulhangjeongji) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Northern Kurdish: ambargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Māori: herepū — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Persian: تحریم (tahrim) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Polish: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Portuguese: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Portuguese: bloqueio — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Romanian: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Russian: эмба́рго (embárgo) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Russian: блока́да (blokáda) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Spanish: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Swedish: embargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Tagalog: pagpigil — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Turkish: ambargo — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Ukrainian: емба́рго (embárho) — an order by the government prohibiting ships from leaving port
• Albanian: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Arabic: حَظْر (ḥaẓr) — a ban on trade with another country
• Armenian: բեռնարգելք (beṙnargelkʻ) — a ban on trade with another country
• Armenian: էմբարգո (ēmbargo) — a ban on trade with another country
• Azerbaijani: embarqo — a ban on trade with another country
• Belarusian: эмба́рга (embárha) — a ban on trade with another country
• Bulgarian: емба́рго (embárgo) — a ban on trade with another country
• Catalan: embargament — a ban on trade with another country
• Catalan: embarg — a ban on trade with another country
• Chinese Mandarin: 禁運 /禁运 (jìnyùn) — a ban on trade with another country
• Czech: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Danish: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Esperanto: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Estonian: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Faroese: handilsbann — a ban on trade with another country
• Finnish: kauppasaarto — a ban on trade with another country
• French: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Georgian: ემბარგო (embargo) — a ban on trade with another country
• German: Embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• German: Ausfuhrsperre — a ban on trade with another country
• German: Handelsverbot — a ban on trade with another country
• German: Handelsembargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Greek: εμπάργκο (empárgko) — a ban on trade with another country
• Hebrew: אֶמְבַּרְגּוֹ (embárgo) — a ban on trade with another country
• Hebrew: חֵרֶם (khérem) — a ban on trade with another country
• Hindi: प्रतिबंध (pratibandh) — a ban on trade with another country
• Hindi: घाटबंधी (ghāṭbandhī) — a ban on trade with another country
• Hungarian: embargó — a ban on trade with another country
• Icelandic: viðskiptabann — a ban on trade with another country
• Italian: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Japanese: 禁輸 (kin'yu) — a ban on trade with another country
• Kazakh: эмбарго (émbargo) — a ban on trade with another country
• Khmer: និន្និវារណ៍ (nĭnnĭvéarn៍) — a ban on trade with another country
• Korean: 엠바고 (embago) — a ban on trade with another country
• Korean: 금수 (geumsu) — a ban on trade with another country
• Korean: 금수조치 (geumsujochi) — a ban on trade with another country
• Northern Kurdish: ambargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Kyrgyz: эмбарго (embargo) — a ban on trade with another country
• Latvian: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Lithuanian: embargas — a ban on trade with another country
• Macedonian: емба́рго (embárgo) — a ban on trade with another country
• Māori: herepū — a ban on trade with another country
• Norwegian Bokmål: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Persian: تحریم (tahrim) — a ban on trade with another country
• Polish: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Portuguese: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Romanian: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Russian: эмба́рго (embárgo) — a ban on trade with another country
• Serbo-Croatian: ѐмба̄рго — a ban on trade with another country
• Serbo-Croatian: èmbārgo — a ban on trade with another country
• Slovak: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Slovene: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Spanish: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Swedish: handelsembargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Swedish: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Tagalog: pagpigil — a ban on trade with another country
• Tajik: эмбарго (embargo) — a ban on trade with another country
• Tajik: қадаған (qadaġan) — a ban on trade with another country
• Tajik: таҳрим (tahrim) — a ban on trade with another country
• Thai: การห้ามเรือ — a ban on trade with another country
• Thai: การห้ามสินค้า — a ban on trade with another country
• Turkish: ambargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Ukrainian: емба́рго (embárho) — a ban on trade with another country
• Uzbek: embargo — a ban on trade with another country
• Vietnamese: cấm vận — a ban on trade with another country
• Belarusian: эмба́рга (embárha) — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Finnish: julkistamiskielto — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Finnish: embargo — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• French: embargo — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• German: Verbot — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Northern Kurdish: ambargo — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Māori: herepū — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Polish: embargo — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Russian: эмба́рго (embárgo) — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Russian: запре́т (zaprét) — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Turkish: ambargo — a temporary ban on making certain information public
• Ukrainian: емба́рго (embárho) — a temporary ban on making certain information public