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, archived from the original on 7 August 2020, retrieved 11 February 2012:

     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