Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French [Term?], from Latin interpretātiō, noun of action from interpretor (“to explain, expound, interpret, understand, conclude, infer, comprehend”)
Morphologically interpret + -ation
Noun
interpretation (countable and uncountable, plural interpretations)
- (countable) An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.
The interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma
The interpretation of the rules
- (countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.
- (uncountable, linguistics, translation studies) The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
- 1994, Richard K. Seymour, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Translation and Interpreting: Bridging East and West : Selected Conference Papers, University of Hawaii Press (→ISBN), page 11
- I believe that interpretation, particularly consecutive interpretation, is an art. I also believe, however, that the skill of consecutive interpretation can be taught, but only up to a point.
2002, Alessandra Riccardi, Translation Studies: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 90:Interpretation studies is a young discipline, much younger than translation studies, and it cannot claim a long tradition and history of reflexions [sic] and studies.
2013, Sana Loue, Handbook of Immigrant Health, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 61:The most pervasive need of non-English-speaking immigrants and refugees is interpretation for every English transaction. Interpretation is needed in stores, schools, and job training, and it is of critical importance in health care.
- Synonym: interpreting
- Hyponyms: simultaneous interpretation, consecutive interpretation
- (uncountable) The power of explaining.
- (countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
- (countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
- (countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
- (countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
- heritage interpretation
Translations
act of interpreting
- Arabic: تَفْسِير m (tafsīr)
- Belarusian: інтэрпрэта́цыя f (interpretácyja)
- Bulgarian: тълкуване (bg) n (tǎlkuvane), обяснение (bg) n (objasnenie)
- Catalan: interpretació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 翻譯/翻译 (zh) (fānyì)
- Danish: tolkning c
- Dutch: interpretatie (nl) f
- Estonian: tõlgendamine
- Finnish: tulkkaus (fi), tulkkaaminen (fi)
- French: interprétation (fr) f
- German: Interpretation (de) f, Auslegung (de) f
- Greek: ερμηνεία (el) f (ermineía)
- Ancient: ἑρμηνεία f (hermēneía), ἑρμήνευμα n (hermḗneuma)
- Hindi: निर्वचन (hi) (nirvacan), अर्थनिर्वचन (arthanirvacan), अर्थापन (arthāpan), व्याख्या (hi) (vyākhyā), ताबीर (hi) (tābīr), अनुवाद (hi) (anuvād), बखान (hi) (bakhān), तरजुमा (hi) (tarjumā), तफ़सीर (tafsīr), अर्थनिर्णय (arthanirṇay)
- Hungarian: értelmezés (hu), (in compound with álom ’dream’) -fejtés (hu)
- Indonesian: interpretasi (id)
- Irish: teangaireacht f, míniú m
- Japanese: 通訳 (ja) (つうやく, tsūyaku)
- Javanese: interpretasi
- Kazakh: аударма (audarma)
- Khmer: ការបកស្រាយ (kar bakasray)
- Korean: 통역 (ko) (tong'yeok)
- Maori: whakamāoritanga, whakamāramatanga
- Mongolian: тайлбарлал (mn) (tajlbarlal)
- Persian: تفسیر (fa) sg (tafsīr), سفرنگ (fa) sg (safrang)
- Polish: interpretacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: interpretação (pt) f
- Romanian: interpretare (ro) f
- Russian: перево́д (ru) m (perevód) (from one language to another), интерпрета́ция (ru) f (intɛrpretácija), тракто́вка (ru) f (traktóvka), толкова́ние (ru) n (tolkovánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-mhìneachadh m
- Spanish: interpretación (es) f
- Swahili: ufasiri, ukalimani
- Swedish: tolkning (sv) c
- Tagalog: interpretasyon, pagkahulugan
- Ukrainian: інтерпрета́ція f (interpretácija), тлума́чення (uk) n (tlumáčennja)
- Uzbek: talqin (uz)
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sense given by an interpreter
the discipline of translating a spoken language
artist's way of expressing his thought
process of applying general principles to the explanation of the results
Translations to be checked
Further reading
- “interpretation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “interpretation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.