unleavened bread

The Hebrew and Greek that is translated as «unleavened bread» in English is translated in various ways:

  • Chichimeca-Jonaz: «bread that doesn’t have its medicine that makes it puff up»
  • Teutila Cuicatec: «bread without its sour»
  • Tepeuxila Cuicatec: «bread that has no mother» (source for this and above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
  • Mairasi: «bread without other ingredient» (source: Enggavoter 2004)
  • Chichewa: “non-puffed-up bread”
  • Chitonga: “bread without fermented grain” (source for this and above: de Regt / Wendland 2016)
  • Hiligaynon: «bread that has-none of that-which-causes-to-expand» (source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Tatar: «unleavened flat cakes» (source: Lénart de Regt in The Bible Translator 2017, p. 131ff. )
  • Nkumbi / Mbangala / Songo: “bread that has gone no yeast” — «this is an application of a common construction in Angolan Bantu languages for speaking about the ingredients in some foods: ‘there is salt in the soup’ is rendered literally, ‘the soup has gone salt.’ (Source: Riikka Halme-Berneking in The Bible Translator 2014, p. 353ff. )
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