calque

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From French calque (“calque”, literally “copy, tracing”), from calquer (“to copy, trace”) (whence also calk), itself borrowed from Italian calcare, from Latin calcāre (“to tread”). Doublet of calcate and calcation.

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: leenvertaling — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Afrikaans: calque — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Albanian: kalk — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Arabic: تَرْجَمَة اِقْتِرَاضِيَّة (tarjama iqtirāḍiyya) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Armenian: բառապատճեն (baṙapatčen) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Azerbaijani: kalka — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Azerbaijani: hərfi tərcümə — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Belarusian: ка́лька (kálʹka) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Breton: drevezadenn — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Bulgarian: ка́лка (kálka) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Catalan: calc — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Chinese Cantonese: 借譯 /借译 (ze3 jik6) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Chinese Mandarin: 借譯 /借译 (jièyì) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Chinese Mandarin: 仿造詞 /仿造词 (fǎngzàocí) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Chinese Mandarin: 仿譯 /仿译 (fǎngyì) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Czech: kalk — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Danish: oversættelseslån — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Dutch: leenvertaling — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Esperanto: paŭso — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Esperanto: tradukprunto — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Esperanto: kalkeo — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Faroese: umsetingarlán — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Faroese: týðingarlán — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Faroese: tøkutýðing — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Finnish: käännöslaina — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• French: calque — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Georgian: კალკი (ḳalḳi) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• German: Lehnübersetzung — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Greek: μεταφραστικό δάνειο (metafrastikó dáneio) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Greek: εκτύπωμα (ektýpoma) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Hungarian: tükörfordítás — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Hungarian: tükörszó — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Hungarian: kalk — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Icelandic: tökuþýðing — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Indonesian: pinjam terjemah — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Irish: lomaistriúchán — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Italian: calco — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Japanese: 翻訳借用 (hon'yaku shakuyō) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Korean: 번역차용 (beonyeokchayong) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Latvian: kalks — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Macedonian: преведеница (prevedenica) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Macedonian: калка (kalka) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Norwegian Bokmål: oversettingslån — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Norwegian Bokmål: oversettelseslån — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Norwegian Nynorsk: omsetjingslån — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Persian: گرتهبرداری (gerte-bardâri) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Polish: kalka — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Portuguese: decalque — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Portuguese: decalque linguístico — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Romanian: calc — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Russian: ка́лька (kálʹka) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Serbo-Croatian: ка̏лк — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Serbo-Croatian: kȁlk — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Slovak: kalk — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Slovene: kalk — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Spanish: calco — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Swedish: översättningslån — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Thai: แคลเก้ — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Turkish: öyküntü — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Ukrainian: ка́лька (kálʹka) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Welsh: cyfieithiad benthyg — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Yiddish: קאַלקע (kalke) — word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language
• Armenian: բառապատճենել (baṙapatčenel) — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Bulgarian: калки́рам (kalkíram) — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Chinese Cantonese: 借譯 /借译 (ze3 jik6) — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Chinese Mandarin: 借譯 /借译 (jièyì) — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Czech: kalk — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Finnish: omaksua käännöslaina — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• French: calquer — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• German: lehnübersetzen — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Hungarian: tükörfordítással alkot — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Indonesian: meminjam terjemah — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Macedonian: калки́ра (kalkíra) — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Portuguese: decalcar — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Russian: калькировать (kalʹkirovatʹ) — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Serbo-Croatian: калки́рати — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Serbo-Croatian: kalkírati — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Spanish: calcar — adopt a word by translation of its parts
• Yiddish: קאַלקירן (kalkirn) — adopt a word by translation of its parts