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English translation: Middle East


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French term or phrase:PMO (pays du moyen-orient)
English translation:Middle East
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French to English translations [Non-PRO]
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French term or phrase: PMO
"Cette direction se charge de la zone Asie-Pacifique, Chine, Afrique, Russie et PMO."

This is an abbreviation for a specific geographic region.

Thank you!
Nadja
N. Leonard
United States
Local time: 20:56
Middle East
Explanation:
pays du moyen-orient? Just a guess.
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Carolingua
United States
Local time: 19:56
Grading comment
Great guess. Thank you!
Nadja
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4Far and Middle East
Danielle Kleingeld
4 +1(Near and) Middle East
Jean-Luc Dumont
1 +4Middle East
Carolingua


  

Answers

5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Middle East


Explanation:
pays du moyen-orient? Just a guess.

Carolingua
United States
Local time: 19:56
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 177
Grading comment
Great guess. Thank you!
Nadja

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Abdellatif Bouhid: Very good guess Caro
10 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Dylan Edwards: Actually I think you could well be right, though I agree with the other answer on what the letters actually stand for. "Near East" seems to be mainly a historical term nowadays, and includes what is known as the Middle East (see New Oxford English Dict.)
1 hr
agree  Jean-Luc Dumont: Middle-East countries or Middle-Eastern countries
11 hrs
agree  Sarah Ponting: yes, it actually stands for Near and Middle East, but the countries of the former are usually included in the latter nowadays :-)
20 hrs
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Far and Middle East


Explanation:
it stands for proche et moyen orient


    Reference: http://international.aphp.fr/publi/BAC2001/BAC2001.pdf
Danielle Kleingeld
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:56
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nadine Brittan: yup
13 mins
agree  Carolingua: so in English that would be something like "near and middle east", since "far east" includes countries like China
16 mins
agree  xxxCMJ_Trans: yet another solution has been chosen - too fast a reaction perhaps?
19 mins
agree  Dylan Edwards: Lots of websites indicate this is what PMO stands for. It's probably just "Middle East" in English (see what the New Oxford English Dictionary has to say about "Near East"!)
1 hr
agree  sktrans
2 hrs
disagree  Jean-Luc Dumont: Far East n'est pas le Moyen-Orient, c'est l'Extrême-Orient dans le sens d'Asie - du Pakistan au Japon par l'Indonésie Commence
11 hrs
neutral  Sarah Ponting: in this case it should be Near and Middle East
20 hrs
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
(Near and) Middle East


Explanation:
sorry one more comment on answer chosen

PMO Proche (et) Moyen-Orient = Near and Middle East

souvent simplifier en anglais : Middle East(ern countries)


Proche et Moyen-Orient



The Countries of the Middle East

The term Middle East refers collectively to:

Cyprus*, Egypt, Iran*, Iraq, Israel*, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey*, Yemen, and the states and emirates along the southern and eastern fringes of the Arabian Peninsula, namely, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

(* The marked countries above are not Arabic. They are of different cultures and have different languages.)

http://www.strategic-road.com/pays/morient/morien01.htm


Jean-Luc Dumont
France
Local time: 02:56
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in pair: 1108

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sarah Ponting: yes, what was once known as the Near East is now often included with the Middle East
8 hrs
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