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societe generale

Arabic translation: سوسيتيه جنرال


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10:55 Jan 23, 2006
French to Arabic translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general)
French term or phrase: societe generale
The context is:
"This is the effect of societe generale financial services"
as you can see the term is written in french which indicates that it is a french company.
so should I translate it or transliterate it?
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Nagwan Noaman
Yemen
Local time: 08:53
Arabic translation:سوسيتيه جنرال
Explanation:
يبدو لي أنها اسم شركة أو بنك على ما أعتقد
واعتقدت باديء الأمر أنها تعني
NSGB

وبالتالي أفضل عدم ترجمتها بل كتابتها بالعربية
كما إن الجملة التالية لها تفصلها أكثر
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Sam21
Egypt
Local time: 07:53
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3سوسيتيه جنرال
Sam21
3الشركة العامة
Ziad Marzouka


Discussion entries: 2





  

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
societe generale الجمعية العامة
الشركة العامة


Explanation:
"societe" in french doesn't always mean society "جمعية ", it also means company.

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Note added at 10 mins (2006-01-23 11:06:20 GMT)
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or a (business) corporation.

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Note added at 12 mins (2006-01-23 11:08:13 GMT)
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So, you either transliterate it as you mentioned before, or translate it as "الشركة ", but it's not a "جمعية".


    Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/fren/societe
Ziad Marzouka
Local time: 07:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
societe generale الجمعية العامة
سوسيتيه جنرال


Explanation:
يبدو لي أنها اسم شركة أو بنك على ما أعتقد
واعتقدت باديء الأمر أنها تعني
NSGB

وبالتالي أفضل عدم ترجمتها بل كتابتها بالعربية
كما إن الجملة التالية لها تفصلها أكثر

Sam21
Egypt
Local time: 07:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Aisha Maniar: it's a very well known bank and financial services provider in France and I've seen the name transliterated like this before
22 mins
agree  Mariam Osmane: with Aisha
8 hrs
agree  Alaa Abdulsalam: NSGB is the bank's name in Egypt
20 hrs
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Changes made by editors
Jan 23, 2006 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya:
Term askedsociete generale => societe generale
Language pairEnglish to Arabic => French to Arabic


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