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Meaning of "mistranslation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MISTRANSLATION

mistranslation  [ˌmɪstrænsˈleɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MISTRANSLATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mistranslation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MISTRANSLATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

mistranslation

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh into Southwest Asian languages of the second millennium BCE. Translators always risk inappropriate spill-over of source-language idiom and usage into the target-language translation. On the other hand, spill-overs have imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched the target languages. Indeed, translators have helped substantially to shape the languages into which they have translated. Due to the demands of business documentation consequent to the Industrial Revolution that began in the mid-18th century, some translation specialties have become formalized, with dedicated schools and professional associations. Because of the laboriousness of translation, since the 1940s engineers have sought to automate translation or to mechanically aid the human translator.

Definition of mistranslation in the English dictionary

The definition of mistranslation in the dictionary is the act or an instance of mistranslating something or of something being mistranslated.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MISTRANSLATION


calculation
ˌkælkjʊˈleɪʃən
cancellation
ˌkænsɪˈleɪʃən
circulation
ˌsɜːkjʊˈleɪʃən
compilation
ˌkɒmpɪˈleɪʃən
correlation
ˌkɒrɪˈleɪʃən
formulation
ˌfɔːmjʊˈleɪʃən
installation
ˌɪnstəˈleɪʃən
insulation
ˌɪnsjʊˈleɪʃən
isolation
ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən
legislation
ˌlɛdʒɪsˈleɪʃən
manipulation
məˌnɪpjʊˈleɪʃən
musculation
ˌmʌskjʊˈleɪʃən
mutilation
ˌmjuːtɪˈleɪʃən
population
ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən
regulation
ˌrɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən
relation
rɪˈleɪʃən
simulation
ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪʃən
translation
trænsˈleɪʃən
ventilation
ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃən
violation
ˌvaɪəˈleɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MISTRANSLATION

mistrace
mistrain
mistral
mistranscribe
mistranslate
mistrayned
mistreading
mistreat
mistreatment
mistress
Mistress of the Robes
mistressless
mistressly
mistrial
mistrust
mistrustful
mistrustfully
mistrustfulness
mistrustingly
mistrustless

WORDS THAT END LIKE MISTRANSLATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of mistranslation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mistranslation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MISTRANSLATION

Find out the translation of mistranslation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mistranslation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mistranslation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

误译
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

error de traducción
570 millions of speakers

English

mistranslation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अशुद्ध अनुवाद
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سوء التفاهم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неправильный перевод
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mistranslation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভ্রান্ত অনুবাদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

erreur de traduction
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kejahilan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

falsche Übersetzung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

誤訳
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

오역
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mistranslation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dịch không đúng nghia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mistranslation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चुकीचे भाषांतर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yanlış tercüme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

traduzione errata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tłumaczeniu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неправильний переклад
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

traducere greșită
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λανθασμένη μετάφραση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkeerde vertaling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

felöversättning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mistranslation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mistranslation

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MISTRANSLATION»

The term «mistranslation» is regularly used and occupies the 78.578 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of mistranslation
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «mistranslation».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MISTRANSLATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mistranslation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mistranslation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mistranslation

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MISTRANSLATION»

Discover the use of mistranslation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mistranslation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mistranslation and misinterpretation: Polish literature in ...
The first section of the book is devoted to five examples of English translations of Polish poetry and Polish translations of English poetry. The second section of the book is titled Polish Culture in European and American Contexts.
Piotr Wilczek, 2005
2
Ezra Pound and China
The. Beauties. of. Mistranslation: On. Pound's. English. after. Cathay. CHRISTINE FROULA Great literature is written in a sort of foreign language. To each sentence we attach a meaning . . . often a mistranslation. But in great literature all our ...
Zhaoming Qian, 2003
3
Borges and Translation: The Irreverence of the Periphery
Innovation from the periphery is never mere literary technique, just as mistranslation from the periphery is never only playful equivocation. Innovation and mistranslation, creative infidelities and recon- textualization of displaced fragments: ...
Sergio Gabriel Waisman, 2005
4
Molecular Biology: Academic Cell Update Edition
These assorted errors are collectively known as mistranslation. Although such events are rare, a few weird genes actually require such errors for proper expression. For example, the pol gene of retroviruses (see Ch. 17) is only translated if the ...
David P. Clark, 2009
5
Managing an Alliance: The Politics of U.S.-Japanese Relations
Interestingly, there are few decisive examples of mistranslation in the postwar period," In 1941, after U.S. cryptographers broke the Japanese diplomatic codes, American mistranslation of the Japanese internal communications that U.S. ...
‎1976
6
Transfer RNA in Protein Synthesis
Bogosian, G., Violand, B. N., Jung, P. E., and Kane, J. F., Effect of protein overexpression on mistranslation in Escherichia coli, in The Ribosome: Structure. Function & Evolution, Hill. W. E.. Dahlberg, A., Garrett, R. A., Moore, P. B., Schlessinger, ...
Dolph Hatfield, Byeong J. Lee, Robert M. Pirtle, 1992
7
Orientalism & Occidentalism: Is Mistranslating Culture ...
While my main interest is the big picture - mistranslating culture - plain old mistranslation also calls for our attention, for the incredible amount of it found in Japanese-English translation speaks in itself of something. Let me define mistranslation ...
Robin Gill, 2004
8
Narrative, Authority and Power: The Medieval Exemplum and ...
Yet for that very reason the ultimate target of the definition is not Chauntecleer but Pertelote. To the extent that Chauntecleer's invocation and mistranslation of the definition undercut his pretension to authority, they also illustrate the definition's ...
Larry Scanlon, 2007
9
Testing and Assessment in Translation and Interpreting ...
Comparative assessment of translation errors Ex. ST TT (deduction point) NAATI criteria Meaning-oriented criteria 1 lift a ban on selling ban exporting Mistranslation EXPERIENTIAL (A) uranium to India uranium to India (3) Misrepresentation of ...
Claudia V. Angelelli, Holly E. Jacobson, 2009
10
The Translators New Testament
Philippians 3; 10 is a good example of voice mistranslation. KJV says, "Being made conformable unto His death." The NIV says, "Becoming like Him in death." My interlinear says, "Being conformed to the death of Him." The verb is definitely  ...
Alvin Cordes, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MISTRANSLATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mistranslation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Hillary Clinton's Hawkish Response to the Iranian Nuclear Deal
The mistranslation has been irresponsibly repeated despite the constant authoritative corrections. Amongst the translation errors, Iranian expert ... «Antiwar.com, Jul 15»
2
The limited effectiveness of US Middle East policy
It was a mistranslation. Though admittedly, after hitting the western press, the regime took advantage of a hysteria they didn't start, and coopted ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
3
Asturias: Six injured in landslide following heavy rainstorm
Pablo Iglesias blames ETA prisoner uproar on mistranslation The leader of Podemos says his comments in English have been misinterpreted ... «Spanish News Today, Jul 15»
4
Pep Guardiola brings pitch management skills to separatist cause in …
Pablo Iglesias blames ETA prisoner uproar on mistranslation The leader of Podemos says his comments in English have been misinterpreted ... «Spanish News Today, Jul 15»
5
Time to end the mischief
In Buddhism for instance, the mistranslation of the Pali word for “food of pig” (meaning mushroom or vegetable) to “pig” — as the reason for the ... «The Statesman, Jul 15»
6
RISE OF THE MACHINES: Could artificial intelligence kill us off?
The downside is that, even allowing for mistranslation, de Chardin's writings are a stiff uphill climb through thickets of abstraction. Despite this ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»
7
5 roadblocks to creating awesome apps
Mistranslation is without a doubt one of the most embarrassing errors. Be sure to separate translation to different languages from the code, ... «The Next Web, Jul 15»
8
Hillary Clinton and anti-Semite Max Blumenthal: don't ignore the …
Clinton would eventually go that route and try to save face and blame it on a mistranslation in her ear. Nonetheless, “in the Middle East,” Mrs. «JNS.org, Jul 15»
9
It's bye bye bullfighting as new A Coruña Mayor bans annual festival
Pablo Iglesias blames ETA prisoner uproar on mistranslation The leader of Podemos says his comments in English have been misinterpreted ... «Spanish News Today, Jul 15»
10
Malakhi Moshe Rosenfeld Is Latest Victim of Haaretz Translators
In three faulty translations this week, the Haaretz English edition misstated Palestinian and Israeli fatalities. In the first mistranslation, Haaretz's ... «Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Mistranslation [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/mistranslation>. May 2024 ».
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