zeitnot

English

Alternative forms

• Zeitnot

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Zeitnot (literally “need of time”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪt.nət/

Noun

zeitnot (usually uncountable, plural zeitnots)

1. (chess) time trouble, time pressure, a situation where a player has little time to complete the required moves
   • 2010 August 1, Matan Prilleltensky, “Learning From Your Losses”, in U.S. Chess Federation‎^[1], retrieved 2012-02-11:

     Unfortunately I didn't work it out in my zeitnot.

Translations

time trouble, time pressure (chess)

• Armenian: ցայտնոտ (hy) (cʻaytnot)
• Danish: tidsnød c, tidspres n
• Dutch: tijdnood (nl) m
• Faroese: tíðarneyð f
• Finnish: aikapula (fi)
• French: zeitnot (fr) m
• Georgian: ცაიტნოტი (caiṭnoṭi), დროის უკმარისობა (drois uḳmarisoba)
• German: Zeitnot (de) f, Zeitdruck (de) m, Zeitmangel (de) m
• Icelandic: tímaþröng f
• Macedonian: ца́јтнот m (cájtnot)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tidsnød, tidspress

  Nynorsk: tidsnaud, tidspress

• Russian: цейтно́т (ru) m (cejtnót)
• Swedish: tidsnöd c