Deathly hallows

[Pirate_Chik]

hi anyone can tell me how to translate: "DEATHLY HALLOWS"

-sepulcro santificado?


please help!!1

[Santiago Jorge]

Welcome to the Forum!

Could you give us a little more context?

[Pirate_Chik]

it's a book title!!!

[olivodelbuho]

Sepulcros sepulcrales??? suena fatal

[ILT]

Originally Posted by Pirate_Chik

It's a book title!!!

Hola Pirate Chik:
Desafortunadamente esto no nos ayuda mucho. Si nos dijeras de qué trata el libro podríamos ayudarte mejor. Así sólo te podemos dar una traducción literal que fácilmente obtendrías en nuestro diccionario: deatlhy = mortal, hallow = santificado.

Te esperamos.

ILT

[Pirate_Chik]

sound terrible!!!
hahaha
well I tell you that will be the name of the new book of JK Rowling:

"Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows"

[Santiago Jorge]

Sería más como «hueco (en las montañas) peligroso (hasta la muerte)».

[borgonyon]

Hollow es hueco, hallow es santificar, consagrar, bendecir…

¿Algo como "santificación sepulcral"?

[sneaksleep]

This title doesn't make sense to me even in English. It should be an adjective or adverb followed by a noun or a verb (respectively). Deathly is an adjective, but hallow is a verb. Hallowed is an adjective. There is no noun form that I know of. Maybe Rowling is inventing a word?

[Santiago Jorge]

Ops! You are right! It is not "hollow" it is hallow." I guess what threw me off is that we almost never use "hallow" as a noun. Because of this, are you sure it is not supposed to be "hollow?"

[borgonyon]

Notice that it is not hallow, but hallows, like in "all hallows".

Hey, how about "los inocentes sepulcrales"?

[sneaksleep]

Ah, creo que hallows como sustantivo puede ser una forma antigua de decir santos (las personas). Entonces, tal vez sea algo como:

Los santos mortales

En esta entrada de Wikipedia, explican que hallows = saints:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints_Day

[borgonyon]

I found this at the French-English forum, quoting the Oxford English Dictionary:

hallow (n.)
1. A holy personage, a saint. (Little used after 1500, and now preserved only in all-hallows and its combinations, q.v.)
2. In plural, applied to the shrines or relics of saints; the gods of the heathen or their shrines. In the phrase to seek hallows, to visit the shrines or relics of saints; orig. as in sense 1, the saints themselves being thought of as present at their shrines.
3. A loud shout or cry, to incite dogs in the chase, to help combined effort, or to attract attention.

[crisss]

Hi! I'm a Harry Potter fan so basically what fans think is this is related with the Horcruxes and Hogwats.
We think is related with Hogwarts because they registered 2 other titles some time ago:
-Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Hallows
-Harry Potter and the Hallows of Hogwarts
As I'm sure you know, Hogwarts had four founders, they would be the "saints" and the Horcruxes could be their "relics".
But it could be refering to places, not objects. It can mean very different things, and there are many different theories, we won't really know the exact meaning until the book is released, so there can not be a good translation until then.

[Alexa Krum]

Que tal "los Santos Sepulcros" suena mejor y tiene mas sentido, aunque no concuerda bien ya que Deathly es un adjetivo y no sustantivo como lo mencionaron antes waaa Rowling siempre nos mete en problemas de traducción que en español suenan poco esteticos como "El principe Mestizo" que de plano cambiaron por "El Misterio del principe"

[Alfredo.Nieto]

Deathly means "sepulcral", which usually is accompanied by "silence"... whereas hallows means either "santos" or "sagrados" which doesn't make much sense to me. Maybe "las reliquias sepulcrales?"

[Alfredo.Nieto]

And yet that translation doesn't satisfy me... though it's very close to the horcruxes plot

[jgarsol]

Propongo como traducción "Los Santos mortales", utilizando mortales en el sentido de letal, y "Hallows" creo que se refiere a lo que en español llamamos "santo patrón"

[Odonate]

Hello everybody,
I posted the same question in the French-Englsih forums.
I don't understand Spanish so sorry if I repeat something already told.

I think like Crisss that the second translation of the Oxford Dictionary allow us to translate "Hallows" by "Relics". With the context of Hogwarts and the Horcruxes it fits perfectly.

But we never know and it will be great to catch some advice JK.Rowling can give to official translators of HP all around the world.

So, for now, I stick with "Harry Potter and the Dealthy Relics".

[Brenduchis]

Hay que tener en cuenta que es inglés británico, no americano.... puede que allá signifique algo que en USA o en otro país de habla inglesa no (digo, si con los hispanohablantes cuánta diferencia existe........).
Tipo: Philosopher's Stone y Sorcerer's Stone... :/ vamos, lo tuvieron que traducir......... hmmmmmm.

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We have to remember it's british english not american so... maybe the meaning is different in UK than in USA or another english speaker country (between spanish speakers there are so many differences in the language, you know...). I.e. Philosopher's Stone and Sorcerer's Stone, they had to translate it......... hmmmm.......



Eso de santo patrón quedaría bien... santos sepulcrales, santos mortales.
Harry Potter y los santos más chingones ok no AJJAJAJAA

I don't understand why people say hallows don't make sense, ok is not a noun... so hallow is old english or what? Or...well... can somebody explain that to me? I'm such a... T_T