Loan Translation, an important Means of Translating
the Romanian Biblical Zoonyms
The present work has as starting point some theoretical aspects of translation and, in particular, the loan translation and it aims to highlight the linguistic loan translation as a means of translating the names of animals in some religious texts of the Romanian Biblical tradition. Having the sourcetexts at hand, the Romanian translators have often encountered difficulties in rendering the names of the animals specific to the realities of those languages (Greek, Latin, Slavonic and, especially, Hebrew). Therefore, loan translation constituted a favorable way of transfer from the sourcelanguage to the targetlanguage.
Keywords: loan translation, biblical tradition, zoonym, sourcelanguage, targetlanguage, animal
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