عنوان

Evaluating the Accuracy and Consistency in Rendering Qurʾanic Terms with Overlapping Meanings into English

شماره

LA116340

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Evaluating the Accuracy and Consistency in Rendering Qurʾanic Terms with Overlapping Meanings into English

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Linda S Al-Abbas, Ahmad S. Haider, Linda S Al-Abbas, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The Holy Qurʾan has many terms that exhibit a great similarity in meaning and may not be easily rendered into another language. The present study attempts to explore the accuracy of the lexical choices used to render the Arabic near-synonyms ʿfawa, ṣafaḥa, and ġafara into English in three Translations of the Holy Qurʾan; namely, Pickthall (1999), Ali (2001), and Al-Hilali and Khan (2018). The researchers carried out a componential analysis for the Arabic words under study and their English equivalents based on their explanation in different Arabic and English dictionaries and exegeses. The study also investigates whether the translators maintain consistency in translating these words when they occur within the same verse and elsewhere. The findings show that the translators tended to use different English equivalents to the three Arabic words especially when they occur within the same verse, and sometimes failed to reflect the slight differences between them in their translations that they use them interchangeably. With regard to consistency, the study found that the three translators used various English equivalents to refer to the same Arabic word, but Al-Hilali & Khan and Ali were more consistent than Pickthall. The Holy Qurʾan has many terms that exhibit a great similarity in meaning and may not be easily rendered into another language. The present study attempts to explore the accuracy of the lexical choices used to render the Arabic near-synonyms ʿfawa, ṣafaḥa, and ġafara into English in three Translations of the Holy Qurʾan; namely, Pickthall (1999), Ali (2001), and Al-Hilali and Khan (2018). The researchers carried out a componential analysis for the Arabic words under study and their English equivalents based on their explanation in different Arabic and English dictionaries and exegeses. The study also investigates whether the translators maintain consistency in translating these words when they occur within the same verse and elsewhere. The findings show that the translators tended to use different English equivalents to the three Arabic words especially when they occur within the same verse, and sometimes failed to reflect the slight differences between them in their translations that they use them interchangeably. With regard to consistency, the study found that the three translators used various English equivalents to refer to the same Arabic word, but Al-Hilali & Khan and Ali were more consistent than Pickthall.

تاريخ نشر

2020

توصيف ظاهري

111-137

عنوان

Al-Bayan: Journal of Qur'an and Hadith Studies

شماره جلد

18/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2232-1969

اصطلاح موضوعی

consistency

اصطلاح موضوعی

near synonymy

اصطلاح موضوعی

Qurʾan

اصطلاح موضوعی

semantics

اصطلاح موضوعی

translation

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ahmad S. Haider

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Linda S Al-Abbas

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/22321969-12340083

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y