Dictionary

loan rendering en · NOUN

Etymology

From loan + rendering.

Meanings

1. An inexact calque where at least one constituent isn't translated literally, in order to give readers of the target language a more accurate mental image.
   • 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”). 2005, Ibn Khaldûn, translated by Franz Rosenthal, edited by N. J. Dawood, here Bruce B. Lawrence, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History – Abridged Edition, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page XXX:

Forms

Coordinates

loan translation, calque · loan creation

Hypernyms

loan coinage · loan formation · substitution

Synonyms

loan rendition

Translations (2)

fi siirtolaina (new term that is a vague translation) · de Lehnübertragung (new term that is a vague translation)