chuchotage

English

WOTD – 7 February 2016

From French chuchotage (“whispering”).

chuchotage (uncountable)

The interpretation or translation of speech in a whisper to a single person in proximity to other people.
Synonyms: whisper interpreting, whispered interpreting, whispered interpretation
- 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 141:
  Eventually, the words of such Aramaic whisper-translations (called chuchotage in the modern world of international interpreters) were written down, mostly in small fragments, and these targums now provide precious linguistic and historical records for scholars of Judaism.

interpretation of a speech in a whisper

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 耳語傳譯／耳语传译 (ěryǔ chuányì), 耳語同傳／耳语同传 (ěryǔ tóngchuán)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: fluistertolken n
Finnish: kuiskaustulkkaus
French: chuchotage (fr) m
Georgian: ჩურჩულით თარგმანი (čurčulit targmani), ჩურჩულით თარგმნა (čurčulit targmna)
German: Flüsterdolmetschen n
Hungarian: fülbesúgásos tolmácsolás
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: čuksttulkošana f
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: interpretação sussurrada f, interpretação murmurada f, chuchotage f
Russian: нашёптывание (ru) n (našóptyvanije)
Spanish: cuchicheo (es) m
Swedish: viskningstolkning c
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

From chuchoter +‎ -age.

chuchotage m (plural chuchotages)

Borrowed from French chuchotage.

chuchotage m (invariable)