roundabout

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From round + about [from early 20th c.].

192 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: dolayı — circuitous
• Bulgarian: обиколен (obikolen) — circuitous
• Bulgarian: непряк (neprjak) — circuitous
• Czech: nepřímý — circuitous
• Finnish: kiertelevä — circuitous
• Finnish: epäsuora — circuitous
• Finnish: kierto- — circuitous
• German: umständlich — circuitous
• German: verschleiert — circuitous
• Hungarian: kerülő — circuitous
• Hungarian: körülíró — circuitous
• Hungarian: indirekt — circuitous
• Hungarian: terjengős — circuitous
• Hungarian: hosszadalmas — circuitous
• Hungarian: körülményes — circuitous
• Hungarian: köntörfalazó — circuitous
• Icelandic: óbeinn — circuitous
• Icelandic: með vífilengjur — circuitous
• Icelandic: krókóttur — circuitous
• Icelandic: króka- — circuitous
• Icelandic: ekki beinn — circuitous
• Macedonian: обиколен (obikolen) — circuitous
• Māori: takawhawhe — circuitous
• Polish: okrężny — circuitous
• Polish: okólny — circuitous
• Polish: pośredni — circuitous
• Portuguese: perifrástico — circuitous
• Portuguese: circunloquial — circuitous
• Russian: непрямо́й (neprjamój) — circuitous
• Russian: око́льный (okólʹnyj) — circuitous
• Russian: окружно́й (okružnój) — circuitous
• Russian: кру́жный (krúžnyj) — circuitous
• Russian: обходно́й (obxodnój) — circuitous
• Swedish: omständlig — circuitous
• Swedish: tillkrånglad — circuitous
• Swedish: indirekt — circuitous
• Bulgarian: обширен (obširen) — comprehensive
• Bulgarian: обстоен (obstoen) — comprehensive
• Bulgarian: обхватен (obhvaten) — comprehensive
• Finnish: kattava — comprehensive
• German: allumfassend — comprehensive
• German: übergreifend — comprehensive
• German: universal — comprehensive
• German: allseitig — comprehensive
• German: weitgespannt — comprehensive
• Hungarian: átfogó — comprehensive
• Polish: wyczerpujący — comprehensive
• Polish: obszerny — comprehensive
• Polish: wszechstronny — comprehensive
• Polish: kompleksowy — comprehensive
• Polish: pełny — comprehensive
• Arabic: دَوَّار (dawwār) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Bulgarian: кръ̀гово движе́ние (krǎ̀govo dvižénie) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Bulgarian: кръ̀гово (krǎ̀govo) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Catalan: rotonda — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Catalan: giratori — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Chinese Cantonese: 迴旋處 /回旋处 (wui4 syun4 cyu5) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Chinese Cantonese: 環島 /环岛 (waan4 dou2) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Hakka Chinese: 圓盤 /圆盘 (yan2 pan2) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Chinese Mandarin: 環形交叉 /环形交叉 (huánxíng jiāochā) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Chinese Mandarin: 環島 /环岛 (huándǎo) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Chinese Mandarin: 圓環 /圆环 (yuánhuán) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Chinese Mandarin: 迴旋處 /回旋处 (huíxuánchù) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Czech: kruhový objezd — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Czech: okružní křižovatka — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Danish: rundkørsel — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Dutch: rotonde — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Dutch: rondpunt — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Dutch: verkeersplein — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Esperanto: rondoplaco — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Esperanto: trafikcirklo — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Estonian: ringristmik — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Faroese: rundkoyring — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Faroese: kjørekja — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Finnish: liikenneympyrä — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Finnish: kiertoliittymä — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• French: rond-point — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• French: giratoire — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Galician: rotonda — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• German: Kreisverkehr — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• German: Kreisel — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• German: Verteilerkreis — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Greek: κόμβος (kómvos) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Hebrew: כִּכָּר (kikar) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Hungarian: körforgalom — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Icelandic: hringtorg — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Icelandic: umferðarhringur — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Indonesian: bundaran — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Irish: compal — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Irish: timpeallán — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Italian: rotatoria — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Italian: rotonda — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Japanese: ラウンドアバウト (raundoabauto) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Japanese: 環状交差点 (kanjō kōsaten) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Khmer: រង្វង់មូល (rɔɔrŭəngvŭəng muul) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Khmer: ផ្លូវវង់មូល (phləw vŭəng muul) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Korean: 회전교차로 (hoejeon'gyocharo) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Latvian: apļveida krustojums — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Lithuanian: žiedas — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Lithuanian: žiedinė sankryža — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Macedonian: кружен тек (kružen tek) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Malay: bulatan — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Malay: bundaran — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Maltese: rawndebawt — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Māori: pūtahi porotaka — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Norwegian Bokmål: rundkjøring — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Norwegian Nynorsk: rundkøyring — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Persian: فلکه (falake) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Polish: rondo — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Portuguese: rotatória — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Portuguese: rotunda — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Romanian: sens giratoriu — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Russian: кругово́й перекрёсток (krugovój perekrjóstok) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Russian: кольцо́ (kolʹcó) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Russian: кольцевое пересечение (kolʹcevoje peresečenije) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Russian: кругова́я развя́зка (krugovája razvjázka) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Serbo-Croatian: kružni tok — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Serbo-Croatian: kružno raskršće — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Serbo-Croatian: krugotok — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Slovak: kruhový objazd — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Slovene: krožišče — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Slovene: rondo — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Spanish: rotonda — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Spanish: glorieta — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Spanish: redoma — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Swahili: kipilefti — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Swahili: mzunguko — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Swedish: rondell — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Tagalog: rotonda — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Turkish: dönel kavşak — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Ukrainian: кругове́ перехре́стя (kruhové perexréstja) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Urdu: چَورَن٘گی (cauraṅgī) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Urdu: چوک (ćok) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Urdu: چوراہا (ćorāhā) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Urdu: دوراہا (dorāhā) — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Vietnamese: vòng xuyến — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Welsh: cylchfan — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Welsh: cylchdro — road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
• Bulgarian: въртелѐжка (vǎrtelèžka) — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Catalan: carrussel — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Catalan: cavallets — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Czech: kolotoč — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Danish: karrusel — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Dutch: draaimolen — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Dutch: carrousel — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Finnish: karuselli — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• French: tourniquet — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• German: Karussell — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• German: Reitschule — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• German: Ringelspiel — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• German: Rösslispiel — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Hungarian: körforgó — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Icelandic: hringekja — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Irish: timpeallán spraoi — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Korean: 회전무대 (hoejeonmudae) — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Korean: 회전놀이기구 (hoejeonnorigigu) — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Macedonian: вртелешка (vrteleška) — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Māori: takawhawhe — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Polish: karuzela — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Portuguese: gira-gira — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Romanian: carusel — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Romanian: călușei — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Russian: карусе́ль (karusélʹ) — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Spanish: tiovivo — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Swedish: karusell — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Vietnamese: bùng binh — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Vietnamese: vòng xuyến — children’s play apparatus which rotates around a central axis when pushed
• Bulgarian: обико̀лка (obikòlka) — detour
• Bulgarian: завъртулка (zavǎrtulka) — detour
• Czech: objížďka — detour
• Danish: omkørsel — detour
• Dutch: omweg — detour
• Dutch: omleiding — detour
• Finnish: kiertotie — detour
• German: Umleitung — detour
• German: Umgehung — detour
• German: Umgehungsstraße — detour
• Hungarian: kerülő — detour
• Hungarian: kerülőút — detour
• Hungarian: vargabetű — detour
• Hungarian: kitérés — detour
• Hungarian: kitérő — detour
• Icelandic: krókaleið — detour
• Icelandic: krókvegur — detour
• Macedonian: заобиколување (zaobikoluvanje) — detour
• Polish: objazd — detour
• Portuguese: desvio — detour
• Romanian: ocol — detour
• Russian: объе́зд (obʺjézd) — detour
• Slovene: obvoz — detour
• Spanish: desvío — detour
• Swedish: omväg — detour