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Loaned translation of an expression
In linguistics, a calque (/kælk/) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation
Calque
list contains examples of calques in various languages. Running dog calques Chinese: 走狗; pinyin: zǒu gǒu. brainwashing calques Chinese: 洗腦; pinyin: xǐ nǎo
List_of_calques
Lexical item replicating the etymology of a foreign lexical item
In linguistics, an etymological calque is a lexical item calqued from another language by replicating the etymology of the borrowed lexical item although
Etymological_calque
Argentina Chilean people Chinaman United States, Canada Chinese people A calque of the Chinese 中國人. It was used in the gold rush and railway-construction
List_of_ethnic_slurs
Day of the week
French mercredi, Spanish miércoles or Italian mercoledì, the day's name is a calque of Latin dies Mercurii 'day of Mercury'. Wednesday is in the middle of the
Wednesday
Shaping of a text's meaning by another text in literary studies
through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, or by interconnections between
Intertextuality
Administrative division historically used in the Ottoman Empire
Turkish and Ladino: kaza Armenian: աւան (awan, a calque meaning "borough") Bulgarian: околия (okoliya, a calque meaning "district") and кааза̀ (kaazà) French:
Kaza
commonplace is a calque of locus communis, itself a calque of Greek κοινός τόπος. subject matter is a calque of subiecta māteria, itself a calque of Aristotle's
English_words_of_Greek_origin
Japanese multinational manufacturing corporation
manufactures tires, as well as golf equipment. The name Bridgestone comes from a calque translation and transposition of the founder's surname, meaning 'stone bridge'
Bridgestone
Linguistic process
lexical items) from another language. It is very similar to the formation of calques, excepting that in this case the complete word in the borrowing language
Semantic_loan
Word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language
'children's garden'). The word calque is a loanword, while the word loanword is a calque: calque comes from the French noun calque ("tracing; imitation; close
Loanword
Fictional region of hobbits
England: Tolkien carefully constructed the Shire as an element-by-element calque upon England. There are other connections; Tolkien equated the latitude
The_Shire
Country in Southeast Europe
Albanian: Mali i Zi) English name is a literal translation from a Venetian calque of the Montenegrin phrase "Crna Gora", or "Black Mountain", deriving from
Montenegro
Transfer of the meaning of something in one language into another
"spill-overs", however, have sometimes imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched target languages. Since the 1940s, efforts
Translation
Type of sausage
liverwurst is a partial calque of German Leberwurst (pronounced [ˈleːbɐˌvʊʁst] ) lit. 'liver sausage'; and 'liver sausage' is a full calque thereof. A fourteenth-century
Liverwurst
Phrase with a non-literal meaning
contact phenomenon, resulting from a word-for-word translation called a calque. Piirainen says that may happen as a result of lingua franca usage in which
Idiom
Largest dwarf planet
"Pluto" in various transliterations. In Japanese, Houei Nojiri suggested the calque Meiōsei (冥王星, "Star of the King (God) of the Underworld"), and this was
Pluto
Topics referred to by the same term
symplectic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The term "symplectic" is a calque of "complex" introduced by Hermann Weyl in 1939. In mathematics it may refer
Symplectic
Formal assembly (typically ecclesiastical or academic)
A convocation (from Latin convocare 'to call/come together', a rough calque of Greek ἐκκλησία ekklēsia) is a group of people formally assembled for a specific
Convocation
Louisiana French expression
pronunciation: [lɛse le bɔ̃ tɑ̃ ʁule]) is a Louisiana French phrase. The phrase is a calque of the English phrase "let the good times roll", that is, a word-for-word
Laissez_les_bons_temps_rouler
Media altered from its original state
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Remix
Indo-European concept of a supernatural realm
an otherside, is reconstructed in comparative mythology. Its name is a calque of orbis alius (Latin for "other world/side"), a term used by Lucan in his
Otherworld
Flemish mathematician scientist and music theorist (1548–1620)
"the knowledge of what is certain"), was not a loanword from Greek but a calque via Latin. He also replaced the word chemie, the Dutch for chemistry, by
Simon_Stevin
Chinese cultural, philosophical, and political concept
Tianxia (Chinese: 天下; pinyin: Tiānxià; lit. '[everything] under Heaven') is a term for a historical Chinese cultural concept that denoted either the entire
Tianxia
Latin expression
rest'; thus, the expression translates to 'and the rest'. Et cetera is a calque (loanword/phrase) of the Koine Greek καὶ τὰ ἕτερα (kai ta hetera) meaning
Et_cetera
Idiom of using someone else's idea for one's own advantage
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Stealing_thunder
Northwest Semitic language
Modern Hebrew had Yiddish as their native language and often introduced calques from Yiddish and phono-semantic matchings of international words. Despite
Hebrew_language
Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines
repeated word: Naghintáy sila nang naghintáy.—They kept on waiting" (a closer calque: "They were waiting and waiting.") The words pô/hô originated from the word
Tagalog_language
Sino-Tibetan language
primarily translated into Chinese in one of three ways: free translation (calques), phonetic translation (by sound), or a combination of the two. Today,
Chinese_language
Administrative division of a country that is headed by a governor
governors either states or provinces, the term governorate is typically used to calque divisions of non-English-speaking administrations. The most common usage
Governorate
90° angle (π/2 radians)
the adjacent angles are equal, then they are right angles. The term is a calque of Latin angulus rectus; here rectus means "upright", referring to the vertical
Right_angle
Executive committee of a communist party
directly loaned from Russian, as is the German Politbüro. Chinese uses a calque (Chinese: 政治局; pinyin: Zhèngzhìjú), from which the Vietnamese (Bộ Chính
Politburo
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and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning 'given'. The name appears to be an early calque from Greek Theódoros (Theodore, Theodosius) or Hebrew Matthew with the same
Bogdan
Name list
the Russian culture as part of the trio: Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov as a calque from Greek of the names of saints Faith, Hope and Charity. Russian: Любовь
Lyubov
Chinese phrase for an ineffectual threat
"Paper tiger" is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎). The term refers to something or someone that
Paper_tiger
1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa
the 16th and 17th centuries, it was transferred to other languages as a calque: Icelandic: svarti dauði, German: der schwarze Tod, and French: la mort
Black_Death
Type of professional criminal
informal authority over lower-status members. The phrase "thief in law" is a calque of the Russian slang phrase vor v zakone, literally translated as 'thief
Thief_in_law
Name list
the Russian culture as part of the trio: Vera, Nadezhda, and Lyubov as a calque from Greek of the names of saints Faith, Hope and Charity. A Russian-language
Nadezhda_(given_name)
One of the Four Heavenly Kings and a dharmapala
Tiānwáng; Korean: 광목천왕 Gwangmok Cheonwang; Vietnamese: Quảng Mục Thiên Vương, a calque of Sanskrit Virūpākṣa Traditional Chinese: 毘楼博叉; pinyin: Bílóubóchā; Japanese:
Virūpākṣa
Mountain in Hsinchu County, Taiwan
Dabajian (Chinese: 大霸尖山; pinyin: Dàbàjiān Shān; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tāi-pà-chiam san calque of Atayal: Papak Waqa "towering ear", Saisiyat: Kapatalayan) is located
Mount_Dabajian
Branch of philosophy relating to the material world
as distinct from 'mind' or 'form'. The image of wood came to Latin as a calque from the ancient Greek philosophical usage of hyle (ὕλη). In ancient Greek
Philosophy_of_matter
Euphemism for murder or assassination
expression and the similar wet job, wet affair, or wet operation are all calques of Russian terms for such activities and can be traced to criminal slang
Wetwork
Term in literary criticism
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Paratext
Presenting another author's work as own original work
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Plagiarism
word веселка, meaning "rainbow". Віра (Vira [ˈwirɐ] ), meaning "faith", calque from Greek Πίστη (Piste). Гали́на (Halyna [ɦɐˈlɪnɐ] ), from Galene, of Greek
Ukrainian_name
Musical note duration
upon Latin semi- "half" and brevis "short." The American whole note is a calque of the German ganze Note. Some languages derive the name of the note from
Whole_note
Later version of a song already established with an earlier performer
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Cover_version
Vacation after the wedding to celebrate recent marriage
many modern languages, the word for a honeymoon is a calque (e.g., French: lune de miel) or near-calque.[citation needed] Persian has a similar word, mah-e-asal
Honeymoon
Introductory section of a book
originally as a term employed in philology,[dubious – discuss] possibly a calque of the German Vorwort, itself derived of the Latin praefatio. Afterword
Foreword
Name list
The name Alexandre emerged in Galician, Portuguese, and Catalan through a calque from Old Galician-Portuguese, which was derived from the French form inaugural
Alexandre_(given_name)
Residence of one or more priests or ministers of religion
if appropriate. In the Philippines, the term convent is used, a direct calque of the Spanish convento. An ecclesiastical residence, sometimes called a
Clergy_house
First-century Jewish preacher and religious leader
meaning "The Messiah". The term derives from the Greek Χριστός (Christos), a calque of the Hebrew word משיח (mashiakh), transliterated into English as messiah
Jesus
Vietnamese sausage
jɔ̄ː], moo yor; Lao: ຫມູຍໍ, [mǔː jɔ̄ː]), combining หมู, lit. 'pig', with a calque of giò. Giò lụa before being peeled Chả lụa being cut with a knife Sliced
Chả_lụa
Type of fiction created by fans of the original subject
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Fan_fiction
Interaction between different languages
effects on the language; these may include the borrowing of loanwords, calques, or other types of linguistic material. Multilingualism has been common
Language_contact
Topics referred to by the same term
Žalgiris is the Lithuanian-language calque of the Polish placename Grunwald, notable for the Battle of Grunwald (Lithuanian: Žalgirio mūšis, lit. 'Battle
Žalgiris
Urban Agglomeration in West Bengal, India
population inching towards half a million. The name English Bazar is a calque of Angrezābād ("English-town"), applied in the 17th century to the surroundings
Malda,_West_Bengal
Imitative work created humorously from original work
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Parody
Species of legume
referred to as gliricidia or by its Spanish common name madre de cacao (calque of Nahuatl cacahuanāntli; also anglicized as mother of cocoa), is a medium
Gliricidia_sepium
West Germanic language
languages, such as Chinese, write words borrowed from English mostly as calques, while others, such as Japanese, readily take in English loanwords written
English_language
Spanish variety spoken in Gibraltar
P'atrás expressions are unique as a calque of an English verbal particle, since other phrasal verbs are almost never calqued into Spanish. Because of this,
Llanito
Group of languages spoken in Mesoamerica
of diffusion throughout Mesoamerica is provided by a number of semantic calques widely found throughout the area. For example, in many Mesoamerican languages
Mesoamerican_language_area
Films based on other media (books, plays, etc.)
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Film_adaptation
Class of speech sounds
definition often includes semivowels as well). The word liquid seems to be a calque of the Ancient Greek word ὑγρός (hygrós 'moist'), initially used by grammarian
Liquid_consonant
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great-grandson, viscount of the fief of Chu. More likely, the clan name is a calque of a non-Sinitic dynasty, with modern scholarship believing the character
Xiong_(surname)
Brazilian priestess
Afro-Brazilian religions. Those Portuguese words mean literally "saint's mother", a calque of the Yoruba word iyalorisha, a title given to female leaders of the Yoruba
Mãe-de-santo
Nordic dragon type
fly-dragon"). From Old Swedish, the term was borrowed into Finnish as a partial calque, there becoming louhikäärme, "louhi serpent". The fore element, flogh, was
Flogdrake
1876 opera by Richard Wagner
the first complete performance of the whole work. The title is a German calque of the Old Norse phrase Ragnarök, which in Norse mythology refers to a prophesied
Götterdämmerung
Readymade by Marcel Duchamp
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L.H.O.O.Q.
Auspicious sight of a deity or holy person
the word दूर dūra "far", it makes the portmanteau दूरदर्शन dūrdarśan, a calque of "television".[citation needed] Blessing Dharma transmission Guru–shishya
Darshan_(Indian_religions)
Surname list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Shvets
Mixture of the French and Spanish languages
first generation of immigrants who use it more so when speaking Spanish. Calques are introduced by bilinguals, switching from one language to another, words
Frespañol
Japanese playing cards
Description hongdan (홍단; 紅短), a calque of Japanese akatan (赤短), short for aka-tanzaku (赤短冊; "red tanzaku") cheongdan (청단; 靑短), a calque of Japanese aotan (青短)
Hanafuda
Dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland
as spoken in Sweden and strongly phrased advice against loanwords and calques from Finnish, which are usually incomprehensible to Swedes. In the spoken
Finland_Swedish
Species of plant
common names Vietnamese coriander, rau răm (from Vietnamese), laksa leaf (calque from Malay daun laksa), Vietnamese cilantro, phak phai (from Thai: ผักแพว)
Persicaria_odorata
Rerecording music to use in another recording
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Interpolation_(popular_music)
Sub-Roman kingdom of Northern Britain
Traprain Law and Din Eidyn (Edinburgh, whose English name is ultimately a calque, with the Old English -burh corresponding to the Welsh din; in Scottish
Gododdin
Mechanical device
operation, improving its ability to penetrate armor. "Littlejohn" came from the calque, i.e. literal anglicization, of the name of František Janeček, the Czech
Littlejohn_adaptor
Pun that utilizes words or phrases from multiple languages
portmanteau of the name Mario and "war", or as a flip of the M in "Mario". Calque Code mixing Eggcorn Homophonic translation Lists of English words by country
Bilingual_pun
City in Sicily, Italy
Arab wilayah (ولاية) or the Turkish vilayet (ولايت), used as it would be a calque of the English term shire Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto - listing
Noto
Geolinguistic region sharing areal features of Asia
region. Tibetan has used Ranjana writing since 600 AD, but has preferred to calque new religious and technical vocabulary from native morphemes rather than
Indosphere
Lake in Alberta, Canada
Lake Water Aerodrome is located on this lake. Cooking Lake's name is a calque of its Cree language name, opiminawasu. "Cooking Lake". Geographical Names
Cooking_Lake_(Alberta)
Reuse of sound recording in another recording
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Sampling_(music)
Musical note duration
represents one beat in a bar of 4 4 time. The term "quarter note" is a calque (loan-translation) of the German term Viertelnote. In the Romance languages
Quarter_note
Name list
and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning 'given'. The name appears to be an early calque from Greek Theódoros (Theodore, Theodosius). The name also appears as a
Bohdan_(name)
In music, the substitution of text
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Contrafactum
Chinese-style dish
protein, typically pork and shrimp with scallions. Yangzhou fried rice is a calque of the Chinese name written 揚州炒飯 in traditional characters or 扬州炒饭 in simplified
Yangzhou_fried_rice
New version of a film or TV series
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Remake
as a valid French expression even if some authors view it as a calque of pen name. Calque False etymology False cognate False friend Folk etymology Glossary
List of pseudo-French words in English
List_of_pseudo-French_words_in_English
Contrasting section of music
often called the bridge or release ", or boredom-breaker,. The term is a calque from a German word for bridge, Steg, used by the Meistersingers of the 15th
Bridge_(music)
Word-for-word translation of a text
target language (a process also known as "loan translation") are called calques.[citation needed] The literal translation of the Italian sentence, "So
Literal_translation
Surname list
Slavic Kravets, Kravtsov/Krawtzoff, Kravchenko, Kravchuk Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz, Krawetz), Krawczyk, Krawczak, Krawczuk, Krawczyński (Kravchinsky
Schroeder
Mythical trousers in Icelandic folklore
Nábrók or nábuxur (calqued as necropants, literally "corpse breeches") are a pair of pants made from the skin of a dead human, which are believed in Icelandic
Nábrók
Evolution of a word's meaning
Google Books ngram dataset and the Corpus of Historical American English. Calque Dead metaphor Euphemism treadmill False friend Formal thought disorder Genericized
Semantic_change
Second-level province of the Ottoman Empire
Ottomans also sometimes called the sanjak a liva (لوا, livâ) from the name's calque in Arabic and Persian. Banners were a common organization of nomadic groups
Sanjak
Letter in the Armenian alphabet
sound, it uses a digraph made up of the letter Vo and the letter Hyun (a calque from the Greek digraph ου). Typographical form Handwritten form 280 dram
U_(Armenian)
Word or construction peculiar to or borrowed from the English language
pronunciation and morphology. In this specific sense, loan translations and calques are excluded (as well as words that are etymologically derived from languages
Anglicism
Term often applied to Jews or the Jewish faith, national ideology or culture
"stubborn", is a calque of Greek σκληροτράχηλος, which is a calque of Hebrew קשה עורף qeshēh ʿōref "hard of neck; stubborn". Similar calques are the way of
Hebraism
Name list
Italian "Amedeo", the Polish "Amadeusz", and the Slovenian "Amadej". Similar calques include the German "Gottlieb", Slavic names "Bogomil" and "Bohumil" meaning
Amadeus_(name)
Town economically cetered around a single industry
A monotown (a calque from Russian моногород, monogorod) is a city/town whose economy is dominated by a single industry or company. This means that most
Monotown
CALQUE
CALQUE
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places in Devon and Warwickshire called Welcombe, from Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’ + cumb ‘broad, straight valley’.English : nickname for a well-liked person or one noted for his hospitality, from Middle English welcume, a calque of Old French bienvenu or Old Norse velkominn.Translated form of Canadian French Bienvenue, found in New England.
Surname or Lastname
German
German : from the Latin personal name Christus ‘Christ’ (see Christian). The name Christ (Latin Christus) is from Greek Khristos, a derivative of khriein ‘to anoint’, a calque of Hebrew mashiach ‘Messiah’, which likewise means literally ‘the anointed’.English : variant of Crist.
CALQUE
CALQUE
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew
Woman from Magdala; Tower; Maiden; Young; Unmarried Woman; From the High Tower
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi, Telugu
Son of God
Girl/Female
Teutonic American German Italian Spanish
Wealthy.
Male
Native American
Native American Sioux name PAYTAH means "fire."
Boy/Male
English
Steward; bailiff.
Female
English
Irish and Scottish surname transferred to forename use, from an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha, MCKENNA means "son of Cionaodh," hence "born of fire."
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Consisting of Lightning; Shining; Glittering
Male
Greek
(ΛάζαÏος) Greek form of Hebrew Elazar, LAZAROS means "my God has helped." In the New Testament bible, this is the name of many characters, including a man Jesus raised from the dead.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of three places in Devon named Burridge, from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke) + hrycg ‘ridge’.English : from the Middle English personal name Burrich, Old English Burgrīc, composed of the elements burh, burg ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’ + rīc ‘power’.
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Day Break
CALQUE
CALQUE
CALQUE
CALQUE
CALQUE
v. t.
See 2d Calk, v. t.