"mishap" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɪshæp/ [noun] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mishap.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mishaps [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English mishap, myshappe, myssehappe, equivalent to mis- + hap. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|mishap}} Middle English mishap, {{m|enm|myshappe}} myshappe, {{m|enm|myssehappe}} myssehappe, {{pre|en|mis|hap}} mis- + hap Head templates: {{en-noun}} mishap (plural mishaps)
  1. An accident, mistake, or problem. Translations (accident, mistake, or problem): συμφορά (sumphorá) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), δυσημερία (dusēmería) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), σύμπτωμα (súmptōma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), злополука (zlopoluka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), лош късмет (loš kǎsmet) [masculine] (Bulgarian), accident [masculine] (Catalan), 閃失 (Chinese Mandarin), 闪失 (shǎnshī) (Chinese Mandarin), 意外 (yìwài) (Chinese Mandarin), ongeluk [neuter] (Dutch), vergissing [feminine] (Dutch), probleem [neuter] (Dutch), pech [masculine] (Dutch), kommellus (Finnish), erreur [feminine] (French), accident [masculine] (French), empeno [masculine] (Galician), esquencia [feminine] (Galician), amoladela [feminine] (Galician), Missgeschick [neuter] (German), kleine Ungeschicktheit [feminine] (German), kleines Unglück [neuter] (German), Malheur [neuter] (German), vahinko (Ingrian), sormus (Ingrian), contrattempo [masculine] (Italian), incidente [masculine] (Italian), 不運 (fuun) (alt: ふうん) (Japanese), គ្រោះ (krʊəh) (Khmer), cāsus [masculine] (Latin), cassus [masculine] (Latin), قضا (kaza) (Ottoman Turkish), acidente [masculine] (Portuguese), несча́стье (nesčástʹje) [neuter] (Russian), неуда́ча (neudáča) [feminine] (Russian), percance [masculine] (Spanish), missöde [neuter] (Swedish), aksilik (Turkish), kaza (Turkish), talihsizlik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-mishap-en-noun-Dp7JYhTq Disambiguation of 'accident, mistake, or problem': 95 5
  2. Ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
    Sense id: en-mishap-en-noun-FI1vX1np Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English heteronyms, English terms prefixed with mis-, English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 90 5 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 4 88 8 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 8 83 9 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mis-: 14 69 18 Disambiguation of English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs: 10 77 12
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /mɪsˈhæp/ [verb] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mishap2.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mishaps [present, singular, third-person], mishapping [participle, present], mishapped [participle, past], mishapped [past]
Rhymes: -æp Etymology: From Middle English mishappen, equivalent to mis- + hap. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|mishappen}} Middle English mishappen, {{af|en|mis-|hap}} mis- + hap Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} mishap (third-person singular simple present mishaps, present participle mishapping, simple past and past participle mishapped)
  1. (archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen. Tags: archaic Related terms: luck, lucky
    Sense id: en-mishap-en-verb-Iu~xgYEb
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
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          "word": "pech"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "word": "kommellus"
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          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
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          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
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          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
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          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
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          ],
          "word": "Malheur"
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          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "sumphorá",
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          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "dusēmería",
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          "roman": "súmptōma",
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "contrattempo"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "incidente"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "alt": "ふうん",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "fuun",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "word": "不運"
        },
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "krʊəh",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "word": "គ្រោះ"
        },
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "kaza",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "word": "قضا"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "acidente"
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          "word": "неуда́ча"
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          "word": "percance"
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          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "missöde"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "word": "aksilik"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
          "code": "tr",
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          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
          "word": "kaza"
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          "_dis1": "95 5",
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
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          "ref": "1909, Major A. Playfair, The Garos, page 92",
          "text": "There are certain ceremonies which are observed once a year by a whole community or village, and are intended to safeguard its members from dangers of the forest, and from sickness and mishap during the coming twelve months.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Ill luck; misfortune; mischance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Ill luck",
          "ill luck"
        ],
        [
          "misfortune",
          "misfortune"
        ],
        [
          "mischance",
          "mischance"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɪshæp/",
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zlopoluka",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "злополука"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "loš kǎsmet",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лош късмет"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "accident"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "閃失"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shǎnshī",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "闪失"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yìwài",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "意外"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ongeluk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vergissing"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "probleem"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pech"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "kommellus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "erreur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "accident"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "empeno"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "esquencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amoladela"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Missgeschick"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kleine Ungeschicktheit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kleines Unglück"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Malheur"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "sumphorá",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "συμφορά"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "dusēmería",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "δυσημερία"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "súmptōma",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "σύμπτωμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "vahinko"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "sormus"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "contrattempo"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "incidente"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ふうん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fuun",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "不運"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "krʊəh",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "គ្រោះ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cāsus"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cassus"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "kaza",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "قضا"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "acidente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nesčástʹje",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "несча́стье"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neudáča",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "неуда́ча"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "percance"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "missöde"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "aksilik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "kaza"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "accident, mistake, or problem",
      "word": "talihsizlik"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mishap"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English heteronyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms prefixed with mis-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/æp",
    "Rhymes:English/æp/2 syllables"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "mishappen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English mishappen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mis-",
        "3": "hap"
      },
      "expansion": "mis- + hap",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English mishappen, equivalent to mis- + hap.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mishaps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mishapping",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mishapped",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mishapped",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "luck"
    },
    {
      "word": "lucky"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To happen through misfortune; to mishappen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "happen",
          "happen"
        ],
        [
          "misfortune",
          "misfortune"
        ],
        [
          "mishappen",
          "mishappen"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɪsˈhæp/",
      "tags": [
        "verb"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æp"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
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  "word": "mishap"
}

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