An Investigation of Translation Errors in Renditions of al-Abarāt Manfalouti

Abstract

In addition to proposing some characteristics of a good translator, the current study tries to investigate common errors in the translation of the book al-‘Abarāt which are the consequence of incompetency in the source and target languages. This book was translated by Qasem Mokhtari, Mahmoud Dehnavi and Nozar Abbasi. In general, the study comprises two parts. The first part discusses mastery over target language and the resultant errors due to its absence (inappropriate translation with regard to the source text style, structure transition from the source to the target language, inappropriate application of words and expressions, and word order problems), and the second part handles the issue of mastery over the source language and errors occurring due to the lack of mastery over it (wrong translation, deletion, forgery, literal and negative transfer).

Keywords

• translation criticism of al-‘abarāt
• arabic into persian translation
• necessity for mastery over the target and source languages
• the most common errors in translation