Problems and Strategies in English Translation of Quranic Divine Names

Amjad, Fazel Asadi; Farahani, Mohammad

doi:10.5296/ijl.v5i1.3301

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“…One of the ways is translation. This is in line with Amjad and Faharani (2013), and Masduki (2011). It can be said translation is a means to understand the meanings and messages.…”

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Translation Strategies and Quality of Metaphor in “Twilight” Novel By Stephanie Meyer

Ningtyas

Faridi

Sutopo

2021

EEJ

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This study focused on the analysis of the translation strategies and resulted translation quality in rendering metaphors found in the Twilight novel. The analysis involved the translation strategies by Newmark (1988) and translation quality by Hartono (2016). The results showed that there were seven translation strategies utilized by the translator in rendering the metaphors in the Twilight novel from Indonesian into English with total metaphors were 164. Those metaphors were translated using translation strategies: reproducing the same metaphorical image in the target language 48 times (29%), replacing the metaphorical image in the source language with a standard metaphorical image in the target language with 25 times (15%), translating metaphor by simile by maintaining the metaphorical image with 20 times (12%), translating metaphor by simile plus sense with 13 times (8%), converting a metaphor to its sense or meaning only with 44 times (29%), deleting metaphor with 7 times (4%), and translating metaphor by the same metaphor with the sense or meaning added with 7 times (4%). In terms of content quality, the translation of metaphors was dominated by good content, presentation, and mechanics quality. Moreover, the application of each translation strategy would result in different types of translation quality in terms of content, presentation and mechanics. In addition, it is suggested that the employment of translation strategy in rendering metaphor should consider deeply the existence of the same metaphor both in the source language and target language because the quality of the translation will be determined by the translation strategies.

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“…One of the ways is translation. This is in line with Amjad and Faharani (2013), and Masduki (2011). It can be said translation is a means to understand the meanings and messages.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Translation Strategies and Quality of Metaphor in “Twilight” Novel By Stephanie Meyer

Ningtyas

Faridi

Sutopo

2021

EEJ

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“…Roozegar (2012) in her thesis investigated the collocations of Quran and their translations into English and compared 7 English translations with its Persian counterpart and concluded that literal translation was the most frequent method applied by the translators. Farahani (2013) in his thesis discussed the methods that Quranic names were translated into English and the difficulty the translators faced in rendering these names. He studied three English translations and investigated the strategies adopted by the translators to find out the consistency in rendering these divine names.…”

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A Comparative Study of Three English Translations of Yasin Surah Regarding Vinay and Darbelnet Strategies

Aghajani¹,

Jalali²

2019

IJELT

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Over the past few years, the Persian and English translations of Quran have been studied from different standpointsThroughout the centuries, Muslim and non-Muslim translators have been very concerned to convey the meaning ofthe Quran into languages other than Arabic. The holy Quran is a divine book and its translation into other languagesmust be done meticulously. In this regard, Persian and English translation of one of the surahs of this magnificentbook was selected to be compared. the present study has gone through the investigation of the Persian translation ofone of the surahs of this holy book “Yasin” by Dr. Elahi Ghomshei (1361) and its English translation by threefamous translators Yusuf Ali (2000), Pickthall (1930) and Sarwar (2011) to see discrepancies. Also, this study triesto find out the unit of translation and classify different kinds of Vinay and Darbelnet’s procedures used by theEnglish translators.

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“…It is estimated that 80% or 1.5 billion Muslims are from non-Arab descent and they do not understand Arabic language. Hence 10.26555/ijish.v4i1.3322 al-Quran translations are needed for understanding the content (Abbasian & Nazerian, 2016;Abdelaal & Md Rashid, 2016;Amjad & Farahani, 2013). According to Nassimi (2008) al-Quran translation activity happened since the time of Rasulullah SAW.…”

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confidence: 99%

Translation of al-Quran into Malay Language in the Malay World

Hussin

Kamal

2021

Int. J. Islam. Stud. Human

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The spread of Islam in the Malay Archipelago (henceforth Nusantara) contributed to the activity of al -Quran translation in Malay civilisation. The society started to learn about Islam and the syariah that encouraged them to be close to al-Quran and translate it into the local language. Al-Quran was translated into Malay language in many ways. This study is a study of text aimed at identifying the translated works of al-Quran in Malay language beginning from the 17th century to the 20th century and to investigate its design and chronology. This qualitative study takes a descriptive approach and inculcates the historical method involving heuristics, critique of sources, interpretation and historiography in data collection and data analysis. The research findings show that 21 al-Quran translations into Malay language have been produced since the 17th century in Nusantara. Most of the al-Quran translated works were approached by interpretive translation rather than literal translation. The design of al-Quran translation into Malay language had developed in line with the times, beginning with classical Malay language using the jawi (Arabic) script, until the modern Malay language using romanised script. The concise translation style was seen to dominate the layout of al-Quran translations into Malay language. The al-Quran translation activity was not without controversy, until it led to several works being banned from publication. The rapid translation activity shows the enthusiastic efforts by society in Nusantara in transferring religious knowledge into guidance for daily life.

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Problems and Strategies in English Translation of Quranic Divine Names

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Translation Strategies and Quality of Metaphor in “Twilight” Novel By Stephanie Meyer

Translation Strategies and Quality of Metaphor in “Twilight” Novel By Stephanie Meyer

A Comparative Study of Three English Translations of Yasin Surah Regarding Vinay and Darbelnet Strategies

Translation of al-Quran into Malay Language in the Malay World

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