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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

obstáculo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: obstáculo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bighna/ˈbɪɡ.nə/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #15000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles superaram cada obstáculo com determinação."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An obstacle, hindrance, or impediment that prevents the successful completion of a task or journey.

    "They performed a special ritual to remove every bighna before starting the new construction project."
  2. 2

    An interruption or misfortune causing delay in traditional or religious undertakings.

    "The ceremony proceeded without any unexpected bighna."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Sanskrit noun vighna (विघ्न), meaning obstacle, impediment, or hindrance, via Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages. The term underwent historical transliteration variations incorporating diacritics in academic and scholarly texts to represent the retroflex sounds and aspirated stops accurately.

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