I’m often asked to translate words and phrases into various languages. Without any context this is particular challenging as a word in English might have more than one possible translations in another language.<\/p>\n
The other day, for example, I was asked to translate “Scottish Pride” into Scots and Scottish Gaelic. The Scots version is easy, “Scots Pride”, and the Scottish part is easy in Scottish Gaelic, “na h-Alba”, but there are quite a few equivalents of pride, each of which has slightly or very different meanings. Dwelly<\/a> gives the following translations of pride<\/strong>:<\/p>\n – ain-m\u00e8in – pride, haughtiness, arrogance, frowardness. Without any context, I would guess that “M\u00f3rchuis na h-Alba” might be a good translation of “Scottish Pride”. <\/p>\n
\n– \u00e0nart – pride, disdain, contempt.
\n– \u00e0rdan – pride, haughtiness; anger, wrath; height, eminence, hillock
\n– barracaid – pride; loud talk.
\n– boiteal – pride, haughtiness, arrogance.
\n– borraileachd – pride.
\n– br\u00f2d – pride, arrogance, haughtiness; chastisement;
\n– cuidealachd – pride.
\n– diomas – pride, arrogance; defiance.
\n– l\u00e0stan – pride, sauciness, lordliness boasting for nothing.
\n– m\u00f3rchuis – pride, pomp, magnificence, splendour; boasting, vainglory, ambition, state, pride, glory; exploit
\n– pr\u00f2is – pride, haughtiness; flattery; humouring, cajoling; ceremony; neat, punctilious little female, prude; conceit; niceness
\n– pr\u00f2isealachd – pride, haughtiness; punctiliousness, niceness, ceremoniousness; humouring nattering; punctilious prudery or neatness.
\n– spailp – pride, spirit, courage, boldness; conceit, self-conceit; foppish young man, beau; airs of importance; armour, belt; kiss; lie; attitude of the foot stretched out, as of a self-important fellow
\n– starn – pride, haughtiness, conceit.
\n– st\u00e0t – pride, haughtiness.
\n– str\u00e0ic – pride, self-conceit; swell of anger or passion
\n– uabhar – pride, insolence, bluster, vainglory; pomp; heat; extreme pride
\n– baiseal – pride, arrogance, haughtiness.
\n– barracaideachd – pride, sauciness.
\n– cuidealas – pride, conceit, forwardness.
\n– le\u00f2ime – pride, self-conceit; foppishness, prudery, coquetry.
\n– le\u00f2m – pride, conceit, gaudiness, foppishness, vainglory, prudery; drawling pronunciation; flattery
\n– rimhiadh – pride.
\n– uaibhreachas – pride, pomp, vainglory, haughtiness, arrogance; insolence; great haughtiness, extreme degree of pride or vainglory\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n