This site uses cookies. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the site, while others help to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. For more information, please see the ProZ.com privacy policy.
Cookie settings
  1. KudoZ™ Top
  2. Romanian to English
  3. General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters

Description of humanitarian foundation's duties

English translation: persons abandoned by their families

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
Romanian term or phrase:Description of humanitarian foundation\'s duties
English translation:persons abandoned by their families
Entered by: Lara Barnett

22:05 Mar 24, 2022
Romanian to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / persoane abandonate
Romanian term or phrase: Description of humanitarian foundation's duties
"...indiferent de categoria socială în care se încadrează (copii, bătrâni, persoane singure, orfane sau văduve, persoane abandonate, persoane cu handicap, familii dezorganizate, etc..>"

Please explain what this means in detail as we cannot simply say "abandoned person" in English, we need to be more specific - what in the person's life has been abandoned?
Lara Barnett
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:01
persons abandoned by their families
Explanation:
This is what I think it means, I've also seen a few Google hits for people abandoned in hospital (by their families probably), meaning that someone took them to hospital and they were probably to ill to be discharged without a caretaker, but there was no one to fulfil that role.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 14 hrs (2022-03-25 12:19:07 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

The Guardian: Social workers help Romania's abandoned children off the streets
https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2016/nov/24/...

Save the Children: Preventing and Responding to Child Abandonment at Hospitals
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/ahc_discussio...

Council of Europe: Society has an obligation to support abandoned children and offer them a positive home environment
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/society-has-an-obl...
Selected response from:

Ioana-Leda Costea-Nicolae
Romania
Local time: 18:01
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +2persons abandoned by their families
Ioana-Leda Costea-Nicolae
4 -1castaway
Laureano Brito


  

Answers


3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
persoane abandonate
castaway


Explanation:
It seems to be a sheer translation issue. In my point of view, it is not the question the asker mentions: what in (...) has been abandoned. It would be enough [pardon me the possible naivety] to choose an appropriate term to translate persoane abandonate. I am sure the term castaway does.

Laureano Brito
Brazil
Local time: 12:01
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
Notes to answerer
Asker: (I think you mean "outcast", which is the incorrect register sadly.) Thank you for trying.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Peter Shortall: Acest cuvânt se referă la o persoană ajunsă pe o insulă pustie în urma unui naufragiu, se potrivește aici ca nuca-n perete.
7 hrs
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)

8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
persons abandoned by their families


Explanation:
This is what I think it means, I've also seen a few Google hits for people abandoned in hospital (by their families probably), meaning that someone took them to hospital and they were probably to ill to be discharged without a caretaker, but there was no one to fulfil that role.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 14 hrs (2022-03-25 12:19:07 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

The Guardian: Social workers help Romania's abandoned children off the streets
https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2016/nov/24/...

Save the Children: Preventing and Responding to Child Abandonment at Hospitals
https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/ahc_discussio...

Council of Europe: Society has an obligation to support abandoned children and offer them a positive home environment
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/society-has-an-obl...


Ioana-Leda Costea-Nicolae
Romania
Local time: 18:01
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Romanian
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: SO alienated people...? We would not often say "abandoned" in a social care context.

Asker: Thank you.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Andreea Sepi, MCIL (X): individuals (such as seniors or children) who have been abandoned by their families - I imagine street children would also fall into this category
46 mins
  -> I think you're right :) It could probably refer to any person who needs a carer and has been abandoned by that carer, so adults with disabilities could probably be abandoned as well.
agree  Peter Shortall
2 hrs
  ->  Mulțumesc :)
Login to enter a peer comment (or grade)



Login or register (free and only takes a few minutes) to participate in this question.

You will also have access to many other tools and opportunities designed for those who have language-related jobs (or are passionate about them). Participation is free and the site has a strict confidentiality policy.

Return to KudoZ list

KudoZ™ translation help

The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.

See also:
ProZ.com term search
Search millions of term translations
Close search
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search