Noun
loan rendering (plural loan renderings)
Examples (type of loan)
German Bezahlschranke for paywall, against total calque Bezahlmauer, because the figurative sense of English wall (cf. wall off) corresponds more closely to the figurative sense of German Schranke (“barrier”)
German Wolkenkratzer for skyscraper, if one esteems that “sky” and “clouds” are different enough (otherwise a loan translation)
An inexact calque where, for at least one constituent, the literal translation is not used in favor of a word that is more apt for producing the aimed-for figurative picture within the target language.
Synonym: loan rendition
Coordinate terms: loan translation, calque; loan creation
Hypernyms: loan formation, loan coinage, substitution