Translation

Definition: Rendering the meanings of the Quran into another language in audio or spoken material.

Purpose: Used to distinguish audio renderings of the meanings from written translation and from Quranic recitation.

Related: translation, recitation

Definition: Rendering the meanings of the Quran into another language. A translation is not the Quran in its wording.

Purpose: Used to tie translated-meaning texts to ayahs, languages, translators and sources.

field	value
`code`	`translation`
`plural`	`translations`
`kind`	`content`
Children	`spoken_translation`, `word_by_word_translation`
Origin	`borrowed`
Tier	`core`
Version	`v0.1`
Vocalized	التَّرْجَمَة

Sources:

Definition: One to whom a translation of the meanings of the Quran into another language is attributed, whether a person or a body.

Purpose: Used to attribute a translation to its author, keeping the author apart from the publisher, the reviewer and the source of the text.

The translator is not the mufassir, though the translation may rest on a tafsir.

Related: translation, mufassir

Definition: Representing the letters of one writing system with those of another by fixed rules, without translating the meaning.

Purpose: Used to give a readable representation in another writing system, or for systematic conversion between writing systems.

Related: translation

Definition: A translation giving each word of the ayah its meaning in another language on its own, in the order of the original words.

Purpose: Used in instructional display and in learning, and attached to the word by its key rather than to the ayah.

field	value
`code`	`word_by_word_translation`
`plural`	`word_by_word_translations`
`kind`	`content`
Parent	`translation`
Origin	`standard`
Tier	`core`
Version	`v0.1`
Other spellings	`wbw`, `word_by_word`, `wbw_translation`, `word_translation`, `wordbyword`

The translation of a word on its own is not a translation of the ayah, and is not shown in its place.

Related: translation, word, word_key