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01:15 Jul 22, 2008 |
French to English translations [PRO] Science - Zoology / zoologie | |||||||
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| Selected response from: David Mousseau Canada Local time: 05:42 | ||||||
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5 +1 | doe rabbit |
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4 +1 | hare doe/rabbit doe |
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doe rabbit Explanation: http://www.wordreference.com/fren/lapine -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 hrs (2008-07-22 16:35:59 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Hi again, I wrote all this last night in the "ask Asker" box, but the moderators bumped it and sent it back to me: David Mousseau: 2:37am Jul 22, 2008: Est-ce que "lapin de garenne" est un type de lapin très spécifique, ou est-ce plutôt un "lapin sauvage" (non domestiqué) tout simplement? J'ai trouvé "wild rabbit" en anglais, mais je crois que cela peut faire référence aux lapins domestiques aussi... [Un-Hide] David Mousseau: 2:43am Jul 22, 2008: J'ai trouvé également toutes sortes de résultats Google pour "European rabbit" (même chose que "wild rabbit") et même "European wild rabbit". J'irais avec "wild doe rabbit". C'est logique, et comme on dit, "it rolls off the tongue" - ça se dit très bien Please feel free to contact me or Yolanda Broad if you have any questions or need help in any way for kudoZ. Hope that helps! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 21 hrs (2008-07-22 22:49:00 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Il me semble que les deux se disent. Instinctivement je dirais "doe rabbit", mais selon mes recherches Google il y a environs 6,000 résultats pour "doe rabbit" et environs 4,000 pour "rabbit doe". Il semblerait qu'ils sont interchangeables. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 21 hrs (2008-07-22 22:50:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ...oups! "environ" et pas "environs" ;) |
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hare doe/rabbit doe Explanation: This sounds like a culinary context? English is way behind French in its meat vocabulary: everything needs to be spelled out... I believe lapine, in a culinary context, would be farmed doe rabbit; a lapine de Garenne wild doe rabbit, as David suggested, and hase would be doe hare. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2008-07-22 04:35:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, I should have in my answer box "doe hare/doe rabbit" to follow the same word order as in the sentence... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day0 min (2008-07-23 01:15:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I might have led to this confusion. And I may be about to increase it! It seems that if you restrict the search to .uk sites only, while "doe rabbit" gets about twice as many hits as "rabbit doe", "doe hare" is almost unused, it is overwhelmingly "hare doe". "doe rabbit" (.uk only) - 511 hits "rabbit doe" (.uk only) - 272 hits "hare doe" (.uk only) - 221 hits "doe hare" (.uk only) - 5 hits All of that said, I am sure either will be comprehensible. I am still curious about the exact context here, it may make a difference. I really don't mind who you give points to. The main contribution I wanted to make was to suggest that in a culinary context, 'lapine' would be *farmed* doe rabbit. |
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