calqued
/kælkt/
verb
- To have borrowed a word or phrase from another language by translating its parts directly, rather than adopting the original word.
- The English phrase 'flea market' was calqued from the French 'marché aux puces'.
- Linguists noted that the term 'brainwashing' was calqued from the Chinese 'xǐ nǎo'.
- Many technical terms in Japanese were calqued from English during the Meiji period.