South Bolivian Quechua

peace (being at peace)

The Greek that is translated into English as “peace” is (back-) translated with a variety of idioms and phrases:

“a song in the body” (Baoulé)
“heart coolness” (Eastern Maninkakan)
“to sit down in the heart” (South Bolivian Quechua)
“quietness of heart” (Chol)
“quiet goodness” (Kekchí)
“having your hearts feel oneness for one another” (Tzeltal) (Source for this and above: Bratcher / Nida)
“my heart sits down” (Northern Grebo)
“coolness” (Pular)
“rest within” (Lacandon)
“to have one heart” (Miskito)
“well-arranged soul” (Mashco Piro)
“having a quiet mind” (Ngäbere)
“completeness” (Highland Puebla Nahuatl) (source for this and six above: Nida 1952, p. 128ff.)
“resting the heart” (Central Mazahua) (source: Nida 1952, p. 40)
momapu laro or “cold/cool-hearted” (as an adjective); mapuhio laro or “make the heart cool” (as a verb) (Moronene) (source: David Andersen)
Binumarien: “inner coolness” (source: Oates 1995, p. 249)

The Greek term that is translated as a form of “save” in English is translated in Shipibo-Conibo with a phrase that means literally “to make to live”, which combines the meaning of “to rescue” and “to deliver from danger,” but also the concept of “to heal” or “restore to health.”

In San Blas Kuna it is rendered as “to help the heart,” in Laka, it is “to take by the hand” in the meaning of “rescue” or “deliver,” in Huautla Mazatec the back-translation of the employed term is “lift out on behalf of,” in Anuak, it is “to have life because of,” in Central Mazahua “to be healed in the heart,” in Baoulé “to save his head” (meaning to rescue a person in the fullest sense), in Guerrero Amuzgo “to come out well,” and in Northwestern Dinka “to be helped as to his breath” (or “life”).(Source: Bratcher / Nida.)

In South Bolivian Quechua it is “to make to escape” and in Highland Puebla Nahuatl, it is “to cause people to come out with the aid of the hand.” (Source: Nida 1947, p. 222.)

deny oneself

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The Greek that is translated with “deny himself” or deny oneself” is according to Bratcher / Nida “without doubt one of the most difficult expressions in all of Mark to translate adequately.” These are many of the (back-) translations:

Tetelcingo Nahuatl: “to not accept self”
Amganad Ifugao and South Bolivian Quechua: “to forget self”
North Alaskan Inupiatun: “to have no regard for oneself”
Toraja-Sa’dan: “not bother oneself about oneself”
Huautla Mazatec: “to cover up oneself”
San Miguel El Grande Mixtec: “to not worship oneself”
Tzeltal: “to stop doing what one’s own heart wants”
Western Kanjobal: “to not belong to oneself any longer”
Yaka: “to let go that which he wants to do himself”
Cashibo-Cacataibo: “says, I will not do just what I want to do”
Tzotzil: “to let him say, I do not serve for anything” (in the sense of having no personal value)
Sapo: “to not do what is passing through his mind”
Central Mazahua: “to not take constant thought for himself”
Tabasco Chontal: “to quit what he himself wants”
Highland Totonac: “to undo one’s own way of thinking”
Dan: “to put his own things down”
Kekchí: “to despise himself”
Kituba: “to refuse himself”
Javanese: “to turn his back on himself”
Southern Bobo Madaré: “to disobey himself” (in the sense of denying one’s own wishes)
Huastec: “to leave himself at the side”
Chicahuaxtla Triqui: “to leave his own way”
Loma: “to take his mind out of himself completely”
Panao Huánuco Quechua: “to say, I do not live for myself”
Mitla Zapotec: “to say No to oneself” (source for this and all above: Bratcher / Nida)
Copainalá Zoque: “forgetting self”
Huallaga Huánuco Quechua: “declaring I do not live for myself” (source: Nida 1952, p. 154)
Galela: “put self down” (source: Howard Shelden in Kroneman 2004, p. 501)
Mairasi: “to shuffle out of one’s vision (=forget) everything which is one’s own” (source: Enggavoter 2004)

parable

The Greek that is translated as “parable” in English is translated in other languages in a number of ways:

Piro: “picture with words”
Pamona: “message in the manner of a comparison”
Highland Totonac and South Bolivian Quechua: “comparison word”
Tzeltal: “picture story”
Yucateco and Central Tarahumara: “likeness word”
Cashibo-Cacataibo: “story which says like that”
Chicahuaxtla Triqui and Wayuu: “story told for teaching”
Navajo: “story from which understanding comes”
Western Kanjobal: “notice from which comes teaching” (source for this and all above: Bratcher / Nida)
North Alaskan Inupiatun: “story with a meaning”
Kekchí: “change, or, turned-about word” (source for this and one above: Reiling / Swellengrebel)
Mairasi: “example” (source: Enggavoter 2004)