calque noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
leenvertaling noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Albanian

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kalk noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Arabic

1 entries

تَرْجَمَة اِقْتِرَاضِيَّة noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Armenian

2 entries

բառապատճեն noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
բառապատճենել verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

hərfi tərcümə noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
kalka noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Belarusian

1 entries

ка́лька noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Breton

1 entries

drevezadenn noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Bulgarian

2 entries

ка́лка noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
калки́рам verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Catalan

1 entries

calc noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries

借譯 /借译 noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
借譯 /借译 verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

仿譯 /仿译 noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
仿造詞 /仿造词 noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
借譯 /借译 noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
借譯 /借译 verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Czech

2 entries

kalk noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
kalk verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Danish

1 entries

oversættelseslån noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Dutch

1 entries

leenvertaling noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Esperanto

3 entries

kalkeo noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
paŭso noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
tradukprunto noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Faroese

3 entries

tøkutýðing noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
týðingarlán noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
umsetingarlán noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Finnish

2 entries

käännöslaina noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
omaksua käännöslaina verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

French

2 entries

calque noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
calquer verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Georgian

1 entries

კალკი noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

German

2 entries

Lehnübersetzung noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
lehnübersetzen verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Greek

2 entries

εκτύπωμα noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
μεταφραστικό δάνειο noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Hungarian

4 entries

kalk noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
tükörfordítás noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
tükörszó noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
tükörfordítással alkot verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Icelandic

1 entries

tökuþýðing noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Indonesian

2 entries

pinjam terjemah noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
meminjam terjemah verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Irish

1 entries

lomaistriúchán noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Italian

1 entries

calco noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Japanese

1 entries

翻訳借用 noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Korean

1 entries

번역차용 noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Latvian

1 entries

kalks noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Macedonian

3 entries

калка noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
преведеница noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
калки́ра verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

oversettelseslån noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
oversettingslån noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

omsetjingslån noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Persian

1 entries

گرتهبرداری noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Polish

1 entries

kalka noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Portuguese

3 entries

decalque noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
decalque linguístico noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
decalcar verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Romanian

1 entries

calc noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Russian

2 entries

ка́лька noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
калькировать verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

kȁlk noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
ка̏лк noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
kalkírati verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)
калки́рати verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Slovak

1 entries

kalk noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Slovene

1 entries

kalk noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Spanish

2 entries

calco noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
calcar verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Swedish

1 entries

översättningslån noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Thai

1 entries

แคลเก้ noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Turkish

1 entries

öyküntü noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Ukrainian

1 entries

ка́лька noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Welsh

1 entries

cyfieithiad benthyg noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)

Yiddish

2 entries

קאַלקע noun (word formed by word-for-word translation of a word in another language)
קאַלקירן verb (adopt a word by translation of its parts)

Sample sentences

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It's a calque.

Source: tatoeba (9010306)

"Calque" is a loanword and "loanword" is a calque.

Source: tatoeba (13692864)

David S. Powers, professor of Islamic history and law at Cornell, says he thinks that the word as used today is in the nature of what linguists call a calque, a borrowing from another language in literal translation […]

Source: wiktionary

Those phrases, translated from Spanish, are known as calques. […] The three young Miamians in the video also use “super” as an adverb, one of the calques from Spanish mentioned in Dr. Carter’s research. (“Ay, I’m super bloated.”)

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