calque

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A word or phrase in a language formed by word-for-word or morpheme-by-morpheme translation of a word in another language.

   “David S. Powers, professor of Islamic history and law at Cornell, says he thinks that the word as used today is in the nature of what linguists call a calque, a borrowing from another language in literal translation […]”

2. fiil To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts.