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English
Noun
bad luck (uncountable)
- (uncountable) An undesirable turn of events (such as an accident); misfortune.
2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:McCarthy will point to their bad luck but the statistics now show that Wolves have lost four league matches and have claimed one point from a possible 15 - so it may prove to be another difficult season for the Midlands side.
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misfortune
- Arabic: نَحْس (ar) (naḥs), سُوءُ الحَظّ (sūʔu l-ḥaẓẓ)
- Bulgarian: лош късме́т m (loš kǎsmét), неща́стие (bg) n (neštástie), несполу́ка (bg) f (nespolúka), малша́нс m (malšáns)
- Catalan: mala sort f
- Chichewa: tsoka
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 運氣不好／运气不好 (yùnqi bùhǎo), 壞運氣／坏运气 (huài yùnqi), 噩運／噩运 (zh) (èyùn), 不幸 (zh) (bùxìng), 倒霉 (dǎoméi), 霉運 (zh) (méiyùn)
- Czech: smůla (cs) f
- Danish: uheld (da) n
- Dutch: pech (nl) m, ongeluk (nl) n
- Esperanto: malbonŝanco
- Finnish: huono tuuri
- French: guignon (fr) m, guigne (fr) f (informal), malchance (fr) f, poisse (fr) f (informal), manque de bol m, pas de bol m, (informal), manque de cul m (vulgar)
- German: Pech (de) n, Unglück (de) n
- Greek:
- Ancient: περικάκησις f (perikákēsis)
- Hebrew: נחס (he) (nakhs)
- Hungarian: balszerencse (hu)
- Hunsrik: Unglick n
- Icelandic: óhamingja f, ógæfa (is) f
- Italian: iella (it) f, sfiga (it) f, sfortuna (it) f, malasorte (it) f
- Japanese: 不運 (ja) (ふうん, fuun)
- Korean: 불운 (ko) (burun)
- Latin: res adversae f, fortuna mala f, res mala, adversa n pl
- Luxembourgish: Ongléck n
- Malayalam: നിർഭാഗ്യം (niṟbhāgyaṁ)
- Manx: lag-haghyrt m
- Maori: kōtua, kōtuatanga
- Mongolian: азгүйдэл (azgüjdel)
- Norwegian: uheld n, uflaks m
- Ojibwe: debizi, maazhise
- Pennsylvania German: Unglick n
- Persian: بدشانسی (fa) (badšânsi)
- Polish: pech (pl) m
- Portuguese: azar (pt)
- Quechua: qhincha
- Romanian: ghinion (ro) n, nenoroc (ro) n
- Russian: невезе́ние (ru) n (nevezénije), несча́стье (ru) n (nesčástʹje), неуда́ча (ru) f (neudáča)
- Scottish Gaelic: mì-àdh m
- Serbo-Croatian: zlostreća f
- Sicilian: scutra (scn) f, malanova (scn) f
- Spanish: mala pata (es) f (informal), mala suerte f, mal fario
- Swahili: nuksi
- Swedish: otur (sv) c
- Turkish: kötü şans, kör talih (tr), şanssızlık (tr), uğursuzluk (tr)
- Volapük: mifät (vo)
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