Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Wasserschleier

English translation:

curtains of water/water curtains

Added to glossary by Sheila Hardie
Sep 4, 2002 14:48
22 yrs ago
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German term

Wasserschleicer

German to English Other Moroccan garden - Fez
Sechs ganz unterschiedliche Gartenräume, jeweils von einer eigenen Mauer umgeben, wurden in den Hang gestaffelt. Die höher liegenden haben einen prächtigen Sakkaya (Wandbrunnen), mit blau-weißem Kachelmosaik, aus dem das Wasser stufenweise abfließt in kleine Kanäle, die weiter unten wiederum ein Becken speisen.

Jedes Bassin ist mit einer Alabasterschale oder einem mehrstufigen Marmorbrunnen bestückt, über den sich ***Wasserschleicer*** in Kaskaden ergießen. Es gibt mehrere große Brunnen in Sternform, die zusätzlich zur Mitte auch aus allen acht Ecken Fontänen sprühen.

I can't find this word anywhere. Could it be a typo perhaps?

MTIA

Sheila

Proposed translations

+4
7 mins
Selected

water curtains

Wasserschleier ?

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Note added at 2002-09-04 14:59:46 (GMT)
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Hi Sheila

Above given by, yes you\'ve guessed it, Langenscheidt (structural engineering context).

HTH
Peer comment(s):

agree Armorel Young : yes, probably, and I'd go with "curtain" as the context seems to require something a little more poetical than the strictly technical translation
5 mins
agree Trudy Peters
9 mins
agree Wolf Brosius (X) : as in decorative waterfall
1 hr
agree alszeg
3 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks for all the answers. This is the one I wanted to use, but I wasn't 100% sure if the word WAS meant to be Wasserschleier - but you have now convinced me. The other replies are great too, but curtains of water or water curtains just sounds best to me for this context. Oh, and I must find those Langenscheidt CDs sometime soon, Cilian!"
+2
5 mins

film/ screen of water

could it be Wasserschleier?

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Note added at 2002-09-04 14:55:01 (GMT)
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Ernst technical dictionary gives water screen/ film for Wasserschleier
Peer comment(s):

agree Cilian O'Tuama : my thought too
3 mins
agree Steffen Walter : yes, most probably Wasserschlei*er
4 mins
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11 mins

Typo for Wasserschleicher?

Found this:

Ganz zu Unrecht wird dieses Tal in fast keinem Reiseführer erwähnt. Schon bereits der Dichter James Butler Yeats hat den 300 m hohen Wasserfall in einem seiner Gedichte besungen: \"Wasserschleicher entweichen / den Bergen nahe dem Glen Car.\"

And then, from the English of the poem:
...
Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car, ...

First link German, second English.
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+2
1 hr

sheets of water

I would say
Peer comment(s):

agree Nancy Arrowsmith : it's obviously a typo, this sounds best, like the gardens at Tivoli
3 mins
agree jerrie
2 hrs
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