mishap

English

From Middle English mishap, myshappe, myssehappe, equivalent to mis- +‎ hap.

mishap (plural mishaps)

An accident, mistake, or problem.
Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:
  He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.
Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
- c. 1588–1593, William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
  Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest,
  Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!

accident, mistake, or problem

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: злополука (bg) f (zlopoluka), лош късмет m (loš kǎsmet)
Chinese: 意外 (zh)
Mandarin: 意外 (zh) (yìwài), 閃失 (zh), 闪失 (zh) (shǎnshī)
Dutch: ongeluk (nl) n, vergissing (nl) f, probleem (nl) n, pech (nl) m
Finnish: kommellus (fi)
French: erreur (fr) f, accident (fr) m
Galician: empeno m, esquencia f, amoladela f
German: Missgeschick (de) n
Greek:
Ancient: συμφορά f (sumphorá), δυσημερία f (dusēmería), σύμπτωμα n (súmptōma)
Italian: contrattempo (it) m, incidente (it) m
Japanese: 不運 (ja) (ふうん, fuun)
Khmer: គ្រោះ (km) (krʊəh)
Ottoman Turkish: قضا‎ (kaza)
Russian: несча́стье (ru) n (nesčástʹje), неуда́ча (ru) f (neudáča)
Spanish: percance (es) m
Swedish: missöde (sv) n
Turkish: aksilik (tr), kaza (tr), talihsizlik (tr)

From Middle English mishappen, equivalent to mis- +‎ hap.

mishap (third-person singular simple present mishaps, present participle mishapping, simple past and past participle mishapped)