embarrass
‘throw into doubt or unease, shame, perplex’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. embaras, embarass, embarras < F. embarrasser ‘to block’ < Ital. imbarrazzo < imbarrare ‘to bar’ < in- ‘into, upon’ + Vulgar Lat. barra ‘bar’ < uhm < en < Tamil il-iṉ