calque

See also: calqué

English

WOTD – 1 August 2007

Etymology

From French calque (“calque/loan translation”), from French calquer (“to trace”), from Italian calcare. See also Etymology 2 of calk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kælk/

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• Rhymes: -ælk
• Homophones: calc, calk

Noun

calque (plural calques)

1. (linguistics, translation studies) A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

   The word "watershed" is a calque of the German "Wasserscheide".

Synonyms

• loan translation

Translations

word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language

• Arabic: تَرْجَمَة اِقْتِرَاضِيَّة‎‎ f (tarjama iqtirāḍiyya)
• Armenian: բառապատճեն (hy) (baṙapatčen)
• Belarusian: ка́лька f (kálʹka)
• Bulgarian: ка́лка f (kálka)
• Catalan: calc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 借譯, 借译 (ze³ jik⁶)

  Mandarin: 借譯, 借译 (jièyì), 仿造詞, 仿造词 (fǎngzàocí)

• Czech: kalk (cs) m
• Danish: oversættelseslån n
• Dutch: woordelijke vertaling, letterlijke vertaling, leenvertaling (nl)
• Faroese: umsetingarlán n
• Finnish: käännöslaina (fi)
• French: calque (fr) m
• Georgian: კალკი (ka) (ḳalḳi)
• German: Lehnübersetzung (de) f
• Greek: μεταφραστικό δάνειο n (metafrastikó dáneio)
• Hungarian: tükörfordítás (hu), tükörszó (hu), megfelelő (hu)
• Icelandic: tökuþýðing f
• Indonesian: pinjam terjemah
• Irish: lomaistriúchán m

• Italian: calco (it) m
• Japanese: 翻訳借用 (ほんやくしゃくよう, hon'yaku shakuyō)
• Korean: 번역차용 (beonyeokchayong)
• Latvian: kalks m
• Macedonian: калка f (kalka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oversettingslån n, oversettelseslån (no) n

  Nynorsk: omsetjingslån n

• Polish: kalka (pl) f
• Portuguese: decalque (pt) (linguístico) m
• Russian: ка́лька (ru) f (kálʹka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏лк m

  Roman: kȁlk (sh) m

• Slovak: kalk m
• Slovene: kalk m
• Spanish: calco (es) m
• Swedish: översättningslån n
• Thai: คำต่อคำ (kham-tò kham)
• Ukrainian: ка́лька (uk) f (kálʹka)
• Yiddish: קאַלקע‎‎ f (kalke)

See also

• Hobson-Jobson
• loanword
• metaphrase

Verb

calque (third-person singular simple present calques, present participle calquing, simple past and past participle calqued)

1. (linguistics, translation studies) To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.

Translations

adopt a word by translation of its parts

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: բառապատճենել (hy) (baṙapatčenel)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 借譯, 借译 (ze³ jik⁶)

  Mandarin: 借譯, 借译 (jièyì)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: omaksua (fi) käännöslaina
• French: calquer (fr)
• German: lehnübersetzen

• Indonesian: meminjam terjemah (id)
• Macedonian: калки́ра (kalkíra)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: калькировать (ru) (kalʹkirovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калки́рати

  Roman: kalkírati (sh)

• Yiddish: קאַלקירן‎‎ (kalkirn)

Anagrams

• claque

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Asturian

Verb

calque

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of calcar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of calcar

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French

Etymology

Deverbal of calquer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalk/

Noun

calque m (plural calques)

1. tracing (the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper)
2. (lexicography) calque, loan translation

Further reading

• “calque” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• claque, claqué

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -awki

Verb

calque

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of calcar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of calcar
3. third-person singular imperative of calcar

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Spanish

Verb

calque

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of calcar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of calcar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of calcar.