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scanlation

noun
/skænˈleɪʃən/

Etymology

Blend of scan + translation.

  1. derived from trānslātiō
  2. derived from translacioun
  3. inherited from translacioun — “transfer, translation”
  4. compounded as scanlation — “scan + translation”

Definitions

  1. The process of scanning and translating foreign-language comics (especially Japanese…

    The process of scanning and translating foreign-language comics (especially Japanese manga or Korean manhwa) into the translator's language, for free distribution over the Internet.

  2. A comic that has been scanned, translated, and with translation overlaid onto the…

    A comic that has been scanned, translated, and with translation overlaid onto the original text to produce a second-language version of the comic; a scanlated comic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scanlation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA