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French term or phrase:	PMO (pays du moyen-orient)
English translation:	Middle East
Entered by:	Yolanda Broad

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16:27 Aug 13, 2003

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Marketing

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 KudoZ activity Questions: 118 (none open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 7 United States
Local time: 00:19

Middle East

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

Selected response from:

Carolingua
United States
Local time: 23:19

Grading comment

Great guess. Thank you!
Nadja
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +4

Far and Middle East

Danielle Kleingeld

4 +1

(Near and) Middle East

Jean-Luc Dumont

1 +4

Middle East

Carolingua

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

Middle East

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

Carolingua
United States
Local time: 23:19
Native speaker of:

French,

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in pair: 177

Grading comment

Great guess. Thank you!
Nadja

18 mins confidence:

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: 05:19
Native speaker of:

Dutch

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

11 hrs confidence:

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: 06:19
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in pair: 1108