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Thread poster: Cecilia Falk
abufaraz
abufaraz
Pakistan
Local time: 19:18
English to Urdu
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MUTARJIM Sep 3, 2007

Mutarjim in Urdu .

 
Lucica Abil (X)
Lucica Abil (X)  Identity Verified
Romania
Local time: 16:18
Italian to Romanian
Romanian Sep 3, 2007

traducător (male)/traducătoare (female)

 
Michał Szcześniewski
Michał Szcześniewski  Identity Verified
Poland
Local time: 15:18
English to Polish
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po polsku (in Polish) Sep 3, 2007

tłumacz (male)
tłumaczka (female)

[Edited at 2007-09-03 19:04]


 
ozan karakış
ozan karakış
Türkiye
Local time: 17:18
English to Turkish
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Turkish Sep 3, 2007

mütercim
cevirmen
tercüman


 
Mira Stepanovic
Mira Stepanovic  Identity Verified
Serbia
Local time: 15:18
English to Serbian
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Serbian Sep 3, 2007

Prevodilac (Latin)
Преводилац (Cyrillic)

We use both alphabets


 
Vito Smolej
Vito Smolej
Germany
Local time: 15:18
Member (2004)
English to Slovenian
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SITE LOCALIZER
Time to understand the basic idea of wiki.... Sep 3, 2007

... now we are into a second round of absolutely 100% cooperative answers ... Do you realize, they are all but lost for anybody except ProZ users? Bet my sweet something, nobody will ever think of looking it up here. But! you can do better. You can go to the the page

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/translator#Translations

press edit and write it dow
... See more
... now we are into a second round of absolutely 100% cooperative answers ... Do you realize, they are all but lost for anybody except ProZ users? Bet my sweet something, nobody will ever think of looking it up here. But! you can do better. You can go to the the page

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/translator#Translations

press edit and write it down there.

For the whole world see, appreciate and use. Get yourself a minute of the Wiki experience. And get the idea.

Btw, you can still do it (I did it;) And Cecilia will have it nice and neat in one piece.

Regards

Vito

[Edited at 2007-09-03 20:56]
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Hilde Granlund
Hilde Granlund  Identity Verified
Norway
Local time: 15:18
English to Norwegian
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Norwegian Sep 3, 2007

oversetter - no difference for genders.
(of the translator, that is - the word is masculine in Norwegian)


 
hemanthi
hemanthi
Local time: 19:48
English to Sinhala (Sinhalese)
Sinhala Sep 4, 2007

Bāsha Parivarthaka -


Hemanthi - Sri Lanka

[Edited at 2007-09-04 01:24]


 
Marie Halvorsen
Marie Halvorsen
United States
Local time: 08:18
English to Danish
Danish 'oversætter' is correct Sep 4, 2007

Hi Cecilia,

The Danish term for translator (oversætter) listed in the two links is correct. The term is listed in the singular, indefinite form and may be used for male as well as female translators.


 
Nobuo Kameyama
Nobuo Kameyama  Identity Verified
Japan
Local time: 23:18
English to Japanese
Japanese Sep 4, 2007

Hello Cecilia.

The Japanese word 翻訳者 (hon’yaku-sha) is correct and so is 翻訳家 (hon' yaku-ka). Both can be translated into a translator, however, there's obviously a shade of meaning between them. I believe that Edward George Seidensticker, who translated Kawabata Yasunari's "Yukiguni (雪国)", Murasaki Shikibu's "Tale of Genji (源氏物語)" and so forth, was one of the excellent 翻訳家 (hon' yaku-ka) we ever had. Me? I am just a 翻訳者 (hon’yaku-sha).


 
Jehanne Henin
Jehanne Henin  Identity Verified
Belgium
Local time: 15:18
English to French
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Russian is correct Sep 4, 2007

In Russian: переводчик (m.), переводчица (f.)

 
Christine Schmit (X)
Christine Schmit (X)  Identity Verified
Luxembourg
German to French
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Luxembourgish Sep 4, 2007

Iwwersetzer (male)
Iwwersetzerin (female)

Best regards,

Christine


 
Ocean520
Ocean520  Identity Verified
Taiwan
Local time: 22:18
English to Chinese
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Traditional Han Character (Mandarin) / Taiwan Sep 4, 2007

In Taiwan, just like the wiki said, a translator is called
"譯者" (sounds like: Yi Cher)
or, there are some other versions
"翻譯師"(Fan Yi Shi/ Fan Yi Sher)
"翻譯員"(Fan Yi Yuan)

This term is not gender specific , if wanna indicate, add one character before the term.
男譯者 (Nan Yi Cher) -- male translator
女譯者(Nyuu Yi Cher)-- female translator


[Edited at 2007-09-04 09:54]

[Edited at 2007-09-04 09:56]


 
Philippe Etienne
Philippe Etienne  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 15:18
Member
English to French
Moroccan Sep 4, 2007

(phon.) Tarjman (originates from classical Arabic moutarjem). No dialectal feminine: classical moutarjima is used.
This Arabic root led to the family name Tordjman.
Actually I learned this just yesterday during an Arabic class.


 
José Miguel Braña Montaña
José Miguel Braña Montaña  Identity Verified
Spain
Local time: 15:18
Member (2007)
French to Spanish
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Galician Sep 4, 2007

The galician word for "translator" is "tradutor" (male), "tradutora" (female), just like in Portuguese.

[Edited at 2007-09-04 11:31]


 
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