Jogosult és kötelezett

Hungarian: jogosult and kötelezett

In Hungarian, legal relationships are very often boiled down to their minimum (from the anglophonic perspective) - so you very often see jogosult rendered as obligor and kötelezett as the obligee, that is, the parties who are granted a benefit and an obligation by a contract, respectively. And technically, these are correct, but of course, in the English world we don't ever actually use those terms.

Instead, we normally use more restrictive terms that are specific to the actual relationship being codified in the contract: so a jogosult ends up being the lender, and the kötelezett the borrower, for instance. But Hungarian uses these terms for lots of different kinds of contract, like employer/employee.

I love this kind of detail. I got this nice summary from this cool blog here on HU/EN legal translation.

Sprungleiste

German: Sprungleiste

In programming, a Sprungleiste is a jump table. I guess that's not all that mind-blowing; I just found it somehow charming.

Impressum

German: Impressum

German law requires any commercial website doing business in Germany to feature an "Impressum" detailing the legal information of the business sponsoring the website. In German, "Impressum" is a general term for publications that in English has no good translation. For a periodical, we call it a "masthead", and for a book it's an "imprint".

Plenty of people will tell you that "imprint" is the appropriate term for a website as well - but in this, as in so many cases, plenty of people are wrong. The best translation I've come across is "Legal Notice", but depending on the tone of the site and the design of the Impressum you can get away with "About us", "Contact information" or even "Impressum" if you want to get funky about it.

Actually, I'm seriously considering adding an Impressum to my own site, just to be contrary.

Strömungsabriss

German: Strömungsabriss

Some technical terms are really, really hard to find. Flow separation, apparently.

bis, ter, quater, quinquies

Italian: bis, ter, quater, quinquies

Italian legal documents use a lot of Latin, but I've seen this numbering on occasion in German and French as well. Essentially, these are 'b', 'c', 'd', and 'e' - or they could just as well be rendered 'a', 'b', 'c', and 'd', since they start with bis, which is 2.

I've read that they're often used as a subnumbering scheme in situations (such as figures, or documents submitted in evidence) when there is already numbering and new items need to be inserted between two existing numbers. For example, we have Figure 2 and Figure 3, and we insert a figure between them - in this case, this system would call it Figure 2bis.

I've translated this as e.g. 2a, and so far nobody's complained.

k.m.n.

Hungarian: k.m.n.

Medical abbreviations are always a load of fun; it's difficult to get a good list (there's a great Spanish list, but it's now no longer free).  So as I find them in various translations, I've been trying to run them down more consistently. In Hungarian diagnoses, then, k.m.n. stands for külön megnevezés nélkül, which translates as not otherwise specified, sometimes itself abbreviated to n.o.s. or NOS. Actually, that's common in the various nomenclatures, like the DSM. And it's also used as n.o.s. in the UN Numbers for chemicals.

Aha, here's actually a great list of magyar orvosi rövidítések  - oh, wait, that actually seems to be Hungarian translates of English abbreviations.  This one's more Hungarian.

Cara sencilla/cara doble

Spanish: cara sencilla and cara doble

Single-face and double-face?  What?  But in telecommunications, this is how we talk about simplex and duplex transmissions.