English-Italian translations for untranslatable

• intraducibile
  (Applausi a sinistra) Non mi ero resa conto che la parola "benchmarking» fosse intraducibile. (Applause from the left ) I had not appreciated that the word 'benchmarking' is untranslatable.
  Montaigne sosteneva che la maggior parte dei mali del mondo originasse dalla "ânerie" , un termine intraducibile in spagnolo, ma che si può ricondurre alla parola "asino" . Montaigne said that most of the ills of the world resulted from 'ânerie' , a word which is untranslatable into Spanish, but which is related to 'ass' .

Definition of untranslatable

• Not able to be translated
• A word or phrase that is impossible to translate satisfactorily from one language to another

Examples

• They referred to de Gaulle as a chienlit, a totally untranslatable term that suggests defecation in bed.

Related words

• untranslated
• untranslatability
• untranslatableness