Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An erroneous translation or version.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Wrong translation.
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- noun An incorrect
translation . - noun genetics The incorporation of the incorrect
amino acid into apeptide sequence .
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- noun an incorrect translation
Etymologies
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Examples
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It then admitted there was a "mistranslation" and the Kurdish word "kak" means brother and is a common term of respect.
Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America 2008
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It then admitted there was a "mistranslation" and the Kurdish word "kak" means brother and is a common term of respect.
Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America 2008
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Hell is a pagan Christian mistranslation of the Hebrew word Shoal and Hades, properly translated as grave wherever Hell appears in modern Bibles.
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Hell is a pagan Christian mistranslation of the Hebrew word Shoal and Hades, properly translated as grave wherever Hell appears in modern Bibles.
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` White 'is a mistranslation of the Afrikaans word' weit 'meaning ` wide', and it refers to the animal's mouth, which is wider than that of the black rhino.
Last Chance to See Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1990
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His example is my alleged mistranslation of the Arabic word tawhid which, borrowing without acknowledgement from H.A.R. Gibb, Lewis says is monotheism.
Orientalism: An Exchange Grabar, Oleg 1982
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He says a mistranslation of the Greek word 'tekton' to describe the profession of Joseph,
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ACCUSATIVE itself is actually a mistaken interpretation (mistranslation?) for the Greek word
EzineArticles 2010
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So, in addition to the earlier mistranslation of the Latin word exceptio to mean ` exception 'rather than ` excepting,' we now have the other two, probat and regulam, with meanings that differ from the original.
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It suggests that the argument is misused today because of mistranslation from the Latin original, exceptio probat regulam.
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