English
Etymology
From Middle English translacioun (“transfer, translation”), from Anglo-Norman translacioun, from Latin trānslātiō, from trānslāt-, the supine stem of trānsferō (“to transfer, transport, transform, translate”). Displaced native Old English wending.
Pronunciation
Noun
translation (countable and uncountable, plural translations)
- (countable, uncountable) The act of translating, in its various senses:
- The conversion of text from one language to another.
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- (translation studies) The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
- The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
- (physics, mathematics) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
- (mathematics) A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.
- (genetics) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
- (physics) A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
- The automatic retransmission of a telegraph message.
- The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
- (Christianity) An ascension to Heaven without death.
- (Christianity) A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
- (Christianity) A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
- (medicine) A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
- (countable) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
Derived terms
Translations
act of translating between languages
- Afrikaans: vertaling (af)
- Albanian: përkthim (sq) m
- Amharic: ትርጉም (tərgum)
- Antillean Creole: twadiksyon f
- Arabic: تَرْجَمَة (ar) f (tarjama)
- Armenian: թարգմանություն (hy) (tʻargmanutʻyun)
- Assamese: ভাঙনি (bhaṅoni), অনুবাদ (onubad), তৰ্জমা (torzoma)
- Asturian: traducción (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: tərcümə (az)
- Bashkir: тәржемә (tərjemə)
- Basque: itzulpen
- Belarusian: перакла́д m (pjeraklád)
- Bengali: অনুবাদ (bn) (onubad), তর্জমা (bn) (torjoma)
- Bhojpuri: अनुवाद (anuvād)
- Bikol Central: palis
- Bulgarian: пре́вод (bg) m (prévod)
- Burmese: ယောဇနာ (my) (yau:ja.na)
- Buryat: оршуулга (oršuulga)
- Carpathian Rusyn: перекла́д m (pereklád)
- Catalan: traducció (ca) f
- Chechen: гоч дар (goč dar)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 翻譯 / 翻译 (faan1 jik6)
- Dungan: фанйи (fanyi)
- Eastern Min: 翻譯 / 翻译 (huăng-ĭk)
- Hakka: 翻譯 / 翻译 (fân-yi̍t)
- Hokkien: 翻譯 / 翻译 (zh-min-nan) (hoan-ia̍k, hoan-e̍k)
- Mandarin: 翻譯 / 翻译 (zh) (fānyì)
- Wu: 翻譯 / 翻译 (1fe-yiq)
- Czech: překládání n, překlad (cs) m
- Danish: oversættelse (da) c
- Dolgan: тулмаас (tulmaas), тылбаас (tılbaas)
- Dutch: vertaling (nl) f
- Esperanto: traduko (eo)
- Estonian: tõlge (et), tõlkimine
- Finnish: kääntäminen (fi)
- French: traduction (fr) f
- Galician: tradución (gl) f
- Georgian: თარგმნა (targmna)
- German: Übersetzung (de) f, Übersetzen n
- Greek: μετάφραση (el) f (metáfrasi)
- Gujarati: અનુવાદ (gu) (anuvād), ભાષાંતર (bhāṣāntar)
- Hawaiian: unuhina
- Hebrew: תִּרְגּוּם (he) m (tirgúm)
- Hindi: अनुवाद (hi) m (anuvād), भाषांतर (hi) m (bhāṣāntar), तर्जुमा (hi) (tarjumā)
- Hungarian: fordítás (hu)
- Icelandic: þýðing (is) f
- Ido: traduko (io)
- Indonesian: penerjemahan (id), alih bahasa (id)
- Interlingua: traduction
- Irish: aistriú m
- Italian: traduzione (it) f
- Japanese: 翻訳 (ja) (ほんやく, hon'yaku)
- Kannada: ಅನುವಾದ (kn) (anuvāda), ಭಾಷಾಂತರ (kn) (bhāṣāntara)
- Kazakh: аударма (audarma)
- Khakas: тiлбес (tilbes)
- Khmer: ការបកប្រែ (kaa bɑɑk prae), ការប្រែ (kaa prae)
- Korean: 번역(飜譯) (ko) (beonyeok), 옮김 (ko) (omgim)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: وەرگێڕ (ckb) (wergêrr)
- Northern Kurdish: werger (ku)
- Kyrgyz: котормо (ky) (kotormo)
- Lao: ຄຳແປ (kham pǣ), ການແປ (kān pǣ)
- Latin: trānslātiō (la) f, interpretātiō f
- Latvian: tulkošana f, tulkojums (lv) m
- Lithuanian: vertimas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Iwwersetzung (lb) f
- Macedonian: превод m (prevod), преведување n (preveduvanje)
- Malay: penterjemahan
- Malayalam: വിവർത്തനം (ml) (vivaṟttanaṁ), തർജ്ജമ (ml) (taṟjjama), പരിഭാഷ (ml) (paribhāṣa)
- Maltese: traduzzjoni (mt) f
- Maori: whakamāoritanga
- Marathi: अनुवाद (mr) m (anuvād), भाषांतर (mr) n (bhāṣāntar)
- Middle English: translatynge, translacioun
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: орчуулга (mn) (orčuulga)
- Mongolian: ᠣᠷᠴᠢᠭᠤᠯᠭᠠ (orčiɣulg-a)
- Navajo: saad náánáłahdę́ę́ʼ saad bee áńdaalneʼ
- Nepali: अनुवाद (ne) (anuvād)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oversettelse (no) m
- Nynorsk: omsetjing f, omsetting f
- Occitan: traduccion (oc) f
- Odia: ଅନୁବାଦ (anubāda), ତରଜମା (or) (tarajamā)
- Old English: wending f
- Ottoman Turkish: ترجمه (terceme)
- Pannonian Rusyn: преклад m (preklad)
- Pashto: ترجمه (ps) f (tarjoma), ژباړنه (ps) f (žbārǝna)
- Pennsylvania German: Iwwersetzing f
- Persian:
- Classical Persian: تَرْجُمَه (tarjuma), بَرْگَرْدَان (bargardān)
- Iranian Persian: تَرْجُمِه (tarjome), بَرْگَرْدان (bargardân)
- Plautdietsch: Äwasatunk f
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: tranlaciun f
- Polish: tłumaczenie (pl) n, przekład (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: tradução (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਉਲਥਾ (pa) m (ulathā), ਅਨੁਵਾਦ (pa) m (anuvād), ਤਰਜਮਾ (pa) m (tarjamā)
- Romanian: traducere (ro) f, translatare (ro) f
- Russian: перево́д (ru) m (perevód)
- Sanskrit: अनुवाद (sa) (anuvāda), भाषान्तरण (bhāṣāntaraṇa)
- Sardinian: tradutzione f
- Scots: translation
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-theangachadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пре́вод m (Ekavian), прије́вод m (Ijekavian)
- Roman: prévod (sh) m (Ekavian), prijévod (sh) m (Ijekavian)
- Sicilian: traduzzioni (scn) f, traduzioni f
- Sinhalese: පරිවර්තනය (pariwartanaya)
- Slovak: preklad m, prekladanie n
- Slovene: prevajanje n
- Somali: turjun
- Spanish: traducción (es) f
- Swahili: tafsiri (sw) class n
- Swedish: översättning (sv) c
- Tagalog: pagsasalin
- Tajik: тарҷума (tg) (tarjuma)
- Tamil: மொழிபெயர்ப்பு (ta) (moḻipeyarppu)
- Tatar: тәрҗемә (tt) (tärcemä)
- Telugu: అనువాదము (te) (anuvādamu)
- Thai: การแปล (th) (gaan-bplɛɛ)
- Tibetan: བསྒྱུར་པ (bsgyur pa)
- Tigrinya: ትርጉም (tərgum)
- Turkish: çeviri (tr), tercüme (tr)
- Turkmen: terjime
- Ukrainian: пере́клад (uk) m (peréklad)
- Urdu: تَرْجَمَہ m (tarjama), اَنُواد m (anuād)
- Uyghur: تەرجىمە (ug) (terjime)
- Uzbek: tarjima (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự thông dịch (vi), phiên dịch (vi)
- Volapük: tradut (vo), tradutam
- Walloon: tradujhaedje (wa) m, ratournaedje (wa) m
- Welsh: cyfieithu (cy) m
- West Frisian: oersetting c
- Yakut: тылбаас (tılbaas)
- Yiddish: איבערזעצונג f (iberzetsung)
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result of translating between languages
- Afrikaans: vertaling (af)
- Aghwan: 𐔸𐔰𐕙𐔲𐕒𐕡𐕌𐔰𐕎𐕒𐕡𐕎 (targumanun)
- Arabic: تَرْجَمَة (ar) f (tarjama)
- Armenian: թարգմանություն (hy) (tʻargmanutʻyun)
- Asturian: traducción (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: tərcümə (az)
- Bashkir: тәржемә (tərjemə)
- Belarusian: перакла́д m (pjeraklád)
- Bengali: অনুবাদ (bn) (onubad)
- Bulgarian: пре́вод (bg) m (prévod)
- Catalan: traducció (ca) f
- Cherokee: ᎠᏁᏢᏔᏅᎯ (anetlvtanvhi), ᎠᏁᏟᏔᏅᎢ (anetlitanvi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 翻譯 / 翻译 (faan1 jik6)
- Dungan: фанйи (fanyi)
- Eastern Min: 翻譯 / 翻译 (huăng-ĭk)
- Hakka: 翻譯 / 翻译 (fân-yi̍t)
- Hokkien: 翻譯 / 翻译 (zh-min-nan) (hoan-ia̍k, hoan-e̍k)
- Mandarin: 翻譯 / 翻译 (zh) (fānyì), 譯文 / 译文 (zh) (yìwén)
- Wu: 翻譯 / 翻译 (fe hhiq)
- Czech: překlad (cs) m
- Danish: oversættelse (da) c
- Dutch: vertaling (nl) f
- Esperanto: tradukaĵo
- Estonian: tõlge (et)
- Finnish: käännös (fi)
- French: traduction (fr) f
- Galician: tradución (gl) f
- Georgian: თარგმანი (targmani)
- German: Übersetzung (de) f
- Greek: μετάφραση (el) f (metáfrasi)
- Ancient: μετάφρασις f (metáphrasis)
- Hawaiian: unuhina
- Hebrew: תַּרְגּוּם (he) m (targúm)
- Hindi: अनुवाद (hi) m (anuvād), भाषांतर (hi) m (bhāṣāntar)
- Hungarian: fordítás (hu)
- Icelandic: þýðing (is) f
- Ido: tradukuro (io)
- Indonesian: terjemahan (id)
- Interlingua: traduction
- Irish: aistriúchán (ga) m
- Italian: traduzione (it) f
- Japanese: 訳 (ja) (やく, yaku), 訳文 (ja) (やくぶん, yakubun), 翻訳 (ja) (ほんやく, hon'yaku)
- Javanese: pertalan
- Kazakh: аударма (audarma)
- Khmer: ការបកប្រែ (kaa bɑɑk prae)
- Korean: 번역(飜譯) (ko) (beonyeok), 번역문(飜譯文) (beonyeongmun)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: وەرگێڕ (ckb) (wergêrr)
- Kyrgyz: котормо (ky) (kotormo)
- Latin: interpretātiō f
- Latvian: tulkojums (lv) m
- Luxembourgish: Iwwersetzung (lb) f
- Macedonian: превод m (prevod)
- Malay: terjemahan (ms)
- Malayalam: പരിഭാഷ (ml) (paribhāṣa)
- Maltese: traduzzjoni (mt) f
- Marathi: अनुवाद (mr) m (anuvād), भाषांतर (mr) n (bhāṣāntar)
- Middle English: translacioun
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: орчуулга (mn) (orčuulga)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oversettelse (no) m
- Nynorsk: omsetjing f, omsetting f
- Old English: wending f
- Pennsylvania German: Iwwersetzing f
- Persian:
- Classical Persian: تَرْجُمَه (tarjuma), بَرْگَرْدَان (bargardān)
- Iranian Persian: تَرْجُمِه (tarjome), بَرْگَرْدان (bargardân)
- Plautdietsch: Äwasatunk f
- Polish: tłumaczenie (pl) n, przekład (pl) m
- Portuguese: tradução (pt) f
- Romanian: traducere (ro) f
- Russian: перево́д (ru) m (perevód)
- Sanskrit: अनुवाद (sa) n (anuvāda)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-theangachadh m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пре́вод m (Ekavian), прије́вод m (Ijekavian)
- Roman: prévod (sh) m (Ekavian), prijévod (sh) m (Ijekavian)
- Sinhalese: පරිවර්තන (pariwartana)
- Slovak: preklad m
- Slovene: prevod (sl) m
- Spanish: traducción (es) f
- Swahili: tarjuma
- Swedish: översättning (sv) c, tolkning (sv) c
- Tagalog: salin
- Tajik: тарҷума (tg) (tarjuma)
- Tatar: тәрҗемә (tt) (tärcemä)
- Telugu: అనువాదము (te) (anuvādamu)
- Thai: คำแปล (th) (kam-bplɛɛ)
- Turkish: çeviri (tr), tercüme (tr)
- Turkmen: terjime
- Ukrainian: перекла́д (uk) m (pereklád)
- Uyghur: تەرجىمە (ug) (terjime)
- Uzbek: tarjima (uz)
- Vietnamese: bản dịch (飜譯)
- Volapük: tradutod (vo)
- Walloon: ratournaedje (wa) m, tradujhaedje (wa) m
- Welsh: cyfieithiad (cy) m
- West Frisian: oersetting c
- Yiddish: איבערזעצונג f (iberzetsung)
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genetics: process for producing proteins
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked
- Breton: (please verify) troidigezh (br) f
- Guaraní: (please verify) ñembohasa ambue ñe'ẽme
- Interlingua: (please verify) traduction
- Italian: (please verify) translazione/(please verify) traslazione (it)
- Latin: (please verify) traductio (Vulgar, and New Latin), (please verify) trānslātiō (la) (New Latin)
- Slovak: (please verify) preradenie n - this Slovak word means rather to change the gears instead of translation of the forces in a gearbox
- Vietnamese: (1) (please verify) (sự) dịch (vi) , (2) (please verify) (bản, bài) dịch (vi)
- Welsh: (please verify) cyfieithiad (cy) m
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See also
References
Further reading
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Latin trānslātiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.sla.sjɔ̃/
Noun
translation f (plural translations)
- (mathematics, physics) translation
- (computing) thunking
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
From Latin trānslātiō.
Noun
translation c
- (mathematics, physics) translation
Declension