finish line

English

finish line (plural finish lines)

(sports) A line marking the end of a race.
The five exhausted runners crossed the finish line one after the other.
(figuratively, by extension) The end of a process.
- 2017 January 21, Andy Hunter, “Gylfi Sigurdsson and Swansea stun Liverpool in five-goal thriller”, in the Guardian‎:
  The race to the finish line has started already according to Jürgen Klopp and by those punishing standards Liverpool have faltered badly.

line marking end of a race

Armenian: վերջնագիծ (hy) (verǰnagic)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 終點線 (zh), 终点线 (zh) (zhōngdiǎnxiàn), 終點 (zh), 终点 (zh) (zhōngdiǎn)
Danish: mål (da) n, mållinje c, målstreg c
Dutch: eindstreep (nl) f, eindmeet (nl) f (Belgian Dutch expression)
Esperanto: cellinio
Finnish: maali (fi), maaliviiva (fi)
French: ligne d'arrivée (fr) f
Georgian: ფინიში (piniši)
German: Ziellinie (de) f
Greek: γραμμή τερματισμού f (grammí termatismoú)
Icelandic: mark (is)
Italian: traguardo (it) m, linea d'arrivo f

Japanese: 決勝線 (けっしょうせん, kesshōsen), ゴール (ja) (gōru)
Korean: 골 (ko) (gol)
Macedonian: це́лна ли́нија f (célna línija)
Polish: meta (pl) f
Portuguese: linha de chegada (pt) f
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: фи́ниш (ru) m (fíniš), фи́нишная черта́ f (fínišnaja čertá), фи́нишная ли́ния f (fínišnaja línija)
Spanish: meta (es) f
Swedish: mållinje (sv) c
Tagalog: hanggahang guhit
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Thai: เส้นชัย (sên-chai)

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