untranslatable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ translatable

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌnˌtɹænz.leɪt.ə.bəl/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Adjective

untranslatable (comparative more untranslatable, superlative most untranslatable)

1. Not able to be translated.

   They referred to de Gaulle as a chienlit, a totally untranslatable term that suggests defecation in bed.

Antonyms

• translatable

Derived terms

• untranslatability

Translations

not able to be translated

• Albanian: i papërkthyeshëm (sq)
• Belarusian: непераклада́льны (njepjerakladálʹny)
• Catalan: intraduïble
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不可譯／不可译 (bùkěyì)

• Czech: nepřeložitelný
• Dutch: onvertaalbaar
• Esperanto: netradukebla
• Finnish: kääntämiskelvoton, kääntymätön (fi)
• French: intraduisible (fr)
• Galician: intraducible (gl), intraducíbel (gl)
• German: unübersetzbar (de)
• Greek: αμετάφραστος (el) (ametáfrastos)
• Hungarian: lefordíthatatlan (hu)
• Icelandic: óþýðanlegur
• Italian: intraducibile (it)
• Japanese: 翻訳不可能 (hon'yaku fukāno)
• Macedonian: непреводлив (neprevodliv)
• Polish: nieprzetłumaczalny (pl) m
• Portuguese: intraduzível
• Romanian: netraductibil m
• Russian: непереводи́мый (ru) (neperevodímyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: непрево̀див, непрево̀дљив

  Roman: neprevòdiv (sh), neprevòdljiv

• Slovak: nepreložiteľný
• Spanish: intraducible
• Swedish: oöversättlig (sv)
• Ukrainian: неперекладни́й (neperekladnýj)
• Volapük: netradutovik

Noun

untranslatable (plural untranslatables)

1. A word or phrase that is impossible to translate satisfactorily from one language to another.

Further reading

• Untranslatability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia