loan rendering

English

Etymology

loan +‎ rendering

Noun

loan rendering (plural loan renderings)

Examples (type of loan)

German Bezahlschranke for paywall, against total calque Bezahlmauer, because the figurative sense of English wall (cf. wall off) corresponds more closely to the figurative sense of German Schranke (“barrier”)
German Wolkenkratzer for skyscraper, if one esteems that “sky” and “clouds” are different enough (otherwise a loan translation)

  1. An inexact calque where, for at least one constituent, the literal translation is not used in favor of a word that is more apt for producing the aimed-for figurative picture within the target language.
    Synonym: loan rendition
    Coordinate terms: loan translation, calque; loan creation
    Hypernyms: loan formation, loan coinage, substitution
    • 2005, Ibn Khaldûn, Franz Rosenthal, transl.; N. J. Dawood, here Bruce B. Lawrence, editor, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History – Abridged Edition, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page XXX:
      Morover, Ibn Khaldûn’s particulary terminology, which he evolved with great pains for his “new science,” had to be preserved as far as possible; to some degree, it must have impressed his contemporary readers as unusual. Therefore, at least the outstanding terms. such as ʿumrân, ʿaṣabîyah, badâwah, were preserved in the translation by rather artificial loan renderings (“civilization,” “group spirit, “desert life or attitude”).

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