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transl.

transl. is the abbreviation of translate.

transl. is the abbreviation of translated.

transl. is the abbreviation of translation.

transl. is the abbreviation of translator.

Meaning of translate

Verb

translate (third-person singular simple present translates, present participle translating, simple past and past participle translated)

  1. (transitive) To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
    • Hans translated my novel into Welsh.
  2. (intransitive) To provide a translation of spoken words or written text in another language; to be, or be capable of being, rendered in another language.
    • Hans translated for us while we were in Marrakesh.
  3. (transitive) To express spoken words or written text in a different (often clearer or simpler) way in the same language; to paraphrase, to rephrase, to restate.
    • These works he [Oliver Goldsmith] produced without any elaborate research, by merely selecting, abridging, and translating into his own clear, pure, and flowing language, what he found in books well known to the world, but too bulky or too dry for boys and girls.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “[Contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica.] Oliver Goldsmith.”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord...
  4. (transitive) To change (something) from one form or medium to another.
    • The director faithfully translated their experiences to film.
  5. (transitive) To rearrange (a song or music) in one genre into another.
    • If one were to chart the form of most film songs, translated into conventional terms used in Western music, one would likely see a structure that has an introduction and two or three stanzas: […]2015, Jayson Beaster-Jones, “Film Songs at the End of the Colonial Era and the Emergence of Filmi Style”, in Bollywood Sounds: The Cosmopolitan Mediations of Hindi Film Music, Oxford, Oxfordshire...
  6. (intransitive) To change, or be capable of being changed, from one form or medium to another.
    • Excellent writing does not necessarily translate well into film.

See all 20 meanings of translate

Meaning of translation

Noun

translation (countable and uncountable, plural translations)

  1. The conversion of text from one language to another.
    • This old text needs translation into modern English before it is published.
  2. The discipline or study of translating written language (as opposed to interpretation, which concerns itself with spoken language).
  3. The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
  4. A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
  5. A relation between two mathematical figures such as a straight line where the coordinates of each point in one figure is a constant added to the coordinates of a corresponding point in the other figure.
  6. The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.

See all 13 meanings of translation

Forms of transl.

pluraltransll.
pluraltransls.

Questions about transl.

What is transl. the abbreviation of?
Transl. is the abbreviation of translate.

Words near transl. in the dictionary

  1. transketolation
  2. transketolations
  3. transkid
  4. transkids
  5. transkingdom
  6. transl.
  7. translabial
  8. translabyrinthine
  9. transladies
  10. translady
  11. translamella

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: transl. (page history and authors); translate (page history and authors); translation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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