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\n[www.alls.aiac.org.au](www.alls.aiac.org.au)  \n| An Analysis of Arabic-English Translation: Problems and Prospects\u003Cbr>Md. Faruquzzaman Akan*, Md. Rezaul Karim, Abdullah Mohammad Kabir Chowdhury Faculty of English, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia\u003Cbr>Corresponding Author: Md. Faruquzzaman Akan, E-mail: [f.akan@yahoo.com](f.akan@yahoo.com) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>This research paper is designed with a view to looking into various problems of translating Arabic texts into English and fixing them with prospective and suitable solutions. As translation is a very sensitive and subtle task of language studies, it involves some serious issues to deal with. However, it becomes a more complex task when we translate from Arabic to English. So, a translator must have the critical linguistic knowledge in tackling both the surface and underlying relations of language. Translation also entails the transferring and transforming a variety of characteristic elements from one language into the other. As Arabic and English are of different and distant origins, any translation from one script into the other poses a lot of difficulties such as in the areas of vocabulary, grammar, sound, style and usage. The present paper addresses the problems relating to translating the Arabic texts, specially of the language, into English as well as resolving the obstructions in a practical, possible and acceptable way on the bases of types of readership, text, context, culture and so forth. To make this work more accessible to the nonnative users of the Arabic language, Arabic IPA transcriptions are furnished wherever necessary. |\n| Article history\u003Cbr>Received: September 11, 2018\u003Cbr>Accepted: November 27, 2018\u003Cbr>Published: February 28, 2019\u003Cbr>Volume: 10 Issue: 1\u003Cbr>Advance access: January 2019 |  |\n| Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None |  |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Translation, Meaning, Text,\u003Cbr>Source Language,\u003Cbr>Target Language, Equivalence, Culture,\u003Cbr>Usage |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nTranslation is indispensable in our everyday life for its being a most diverse means of human communication. In these days of globalization and widespread immigration, the need of translation is increasing due to the continuous expansion of trade, science, culture, technology and so on. Translation is a field of contrastive linguistics since it is associated with at least two languages and their cultures. It is the process of conveying the message by transferring from one system of language to the other. That is to say, it is the technique used to transfer and/or transform the meaning of a written term or text of the source language into the target language using words which have direct equivalence, new words or terms, foreign words written in target language or using foreign words to fit the target language pronunciation. Bassnett, S.(1980:21) says,“Translation involves the transfer of ‘meaning’ contained in one set of language signs into another set of language signs through competent use of the dictionary and grammar; the process involves a whole set of extra-linguistic criteria also”. A translation should be read by readers in its new language with the same enthusiasm and understanding as it was in the old. It should have the same virtues as the  \noriginal, and inspire the same responses in its readers. So, a translator is both a reader and writer at the same time. Once in an answer to the question “What is a Translation?” Francis Steele gives a wonderful definition,“A translation should convey as much of the original text in as few words as possible, yet preserve the original atmosphere and emphasis. The translator should strive for the nearest approximation in words, concepts, and cadence. He should scrupulously avoid adding words or ideas not demanded by the text. His job isnot to expand or to explain, but to translate and preserve the spirit and force of the original.... 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