Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
Tambaqui
English translation:
Tambaqui (Amazon freshwater fish)
Added to glossary by
Thais Maria Lips
Oct 15, 2008 17:22
15 yrs ago
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Portuguese term
Brazil
I always do my best
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
Tambaqui
Portuguese to English
Other
Cooking / Culinary
fish
I am translating a restaurant menu into English. Tambaqui is a fish found in the Amazon. Should I translate the name of the fish? Is there a translation for it?
Proposed translations
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| 5 +3 | Tambaqui (Amazon freshwater fish) |
Thais Maria Lips
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| 4 +6 | leave as is |
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
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| 4 +1 | Tambaqui |
Fiona N�voa
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Change log
Oct 17, 2008 15:16: Thais Maria Lips Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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8 mins
Thais Maria Lips
United States
United States
Native in Portuguese
&
English
Specializes in field
United States
Translations Decoder LLC
Native in: Portuguese 
, English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, French to English, and 3 more.
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Tambaqui (Amazon freshwater fish)
You should add explanation in italics or parenthesis
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "All answers were useful but I opted to add comment suggested by Thais"
+6
2 mins
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Norway
Native in Portuguese
Norway
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Engineer:Oil&Gas/Electron/Finan/Law/HSEQ
Native in: Norwegian , Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Norwegian to Portuguese, Portuguese to Norwegian, and 19 more.
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28
leave as is
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Peer comment(s):
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Maria José Tavares (X)
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Katja van Hellemond
2 mins
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mmasur
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Henrique Magalhaes
29 mins
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Carla Selyer
: as is, with brief explanation in brackets
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Alexandra Gouveia
: Exacto, e tal como já foi referido pela Carla, uma breve explicação entre parêntesis.
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3 mins
Tambaqui
The Tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) is a freshwater fish of the subfamily Serrasalminae
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossoma
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossoma
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