Embarazada

Embarazada () is the Spanish word for pregnant. It is a false friend for native English-speaking students of Spanish who may attempt to say "I'm embarrassed" by saying "estoy embarazada". This phrase actually means "I'm pregnant" in Spanish. This may be confusing to Spanish speakers who are not familiar with the English word.
Spanish usage.
The correct way to say "I'm embarrassed" in Spanish is with the phrase "tengo vergüenza" (meaning "I have shame") or the more formal phrases "me da vergüenza" or "estoy avergonzado/a". Yet, in Spanish, there also exists the adjective "embarazoso," meaning the same as "embarrassing" in its denotation of something that causes a sensation of unease, but not of shame. Complicating the issue further, "embarazada" can sometimes also mean "hampered", or "hindered". This more closely mirrors the original meaning of the English word "embarrass".
Grammar.
"Embarazada" is a past participle, meaning that it indicates a state resulting from a previous action. In English, past participles usually end in "-ed" (e.g., "destroyed), and "embarazado" therefore translates directly into English as "impregnated". It is a conjugated form of "embarazar" "to impregnate". As the word "embarazado" is masculine, it is rarely encountered in Spanish. It is more common for the word "embarazada to be used to describe pregnancy. However, "embarazado" can be used as a past participle in perfect tenses, as in: "El hombre ha embarazado a la mujer." (The man has impregnated the woman.)
Etymology.
The English word "embarrassed" is indirectly derived from the Spanish word. The first recorded usage of "embarrass" in English was in 1664 by Samuel Pepys in his diary. The word was derived from the French word "embarrasser", "to block" or "to obstruct", or figuratively, "to put one in a difficult situation". The first recorded usage was by Michel de Montaigne in 1580. The French word was derived from the Spanish "embarazar", whose first recorded usage was in 1460 in "Cancionero de Stúñiga" (Songbook of Stúñiga) by Álvaro de Luna.
The Spanish word likely comes from the Portuguese "embaraçar" (used in the same context of English "embarrassment"), which probably is a combination of the prefix "em-" (from Latin "in-" for "in-") with "baraça" "a noose", or "rope", which makes sense with the synonym "encinta" ("on noose, on rope" because of the old usage of women to wear a strap of cloth on their dresses when pregnant). "Baraça" originated before the Romans began their conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 218 BCE. Thus, "baraça" could be related to the Celtic word "barr", "tuft". (Celtic people actually settled much of Spain and Portugal beginning in the 700s BCE, the second group of Indo-European language speakers to do so.) However, it certainly is not directly derived from it, as the substitution of "r" for "rr" in Iberian Romance languages was not a known occurrence.
Some say the Spanish word actually came from the Italian "imbarazzare", from "imbarazzo", "obstacle" or "obstruction". That word came from "imbarrare", "to block" or "to bar", which is a combination of "in-", "in", with "barra", "bar" (from the Vulgar Latin "barra", which is of unknown origin). The problem with this theory is that the first known usage of the word in Italian was by Bernardo Davanzati (1529-1606), long after the word had entered Spanish. Thus, modern scholars believe that the Italian word actually came from the Spanish one. and in Italian "imbarazzare" has the precise meaning of "to embarrass" in English.
Commercial implications.
When Parker Pen entered the Mexican market, its advertisements, which claimed that Parker Pens "won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you", were mistranslated to "No te embarazará chorreándose en tu bolsillo", which means "Won't leak in your pocket and impregnate you".