Transcreate

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To transfer the creative elements of a work into another culture or language.

    "At a guess, this is a later and more successful development from the earlier attempts to transcreate abstract Indian imagery into English"

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"At a guess, this is a later and more successful development from the earlier attempts to transcreate abstract Indian imagery into English"

Etymology

From trans- + create or Back-formation from transcreation. (Etymology 1).

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