JANTERA BIANGLALA--THE RAINBOW’S ARC
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1 PADI 3 RICE PADDIES
Karena hampir segala
harta-benda, padi, dan
gaplek musnah
terbakar, bahkan juga
kambing dan ayam.
2 BURUNG BRONDOL 3 BRONDOL BIRDS
Denyut Dukuh Paruk
dimulai dari percik
suara polong orok-
orok yang pecah
menyebar
bijinya ketika panas
matahari menjerang,
dari derit batang
bambu yang
bergesekan ketika
angin lembut
bertiup. Dan dari
sepasang burung
brondol yang sibuk
mengangkut rumput-
rumput kering dari
permukaan
tanah ke balik
kelebatan tandan
pinang di atas sana.
3 POHON BUNGUR 3 TREES
Atau dari pancuran di
bawah pohon bungur
itu. Pancuran air yang
TARGET STRATEGY
PAG
E
278 DESCRIPTIVE
EQUIVALENT
… their rice paddies, their dried
cassava, their goats, their Padi (rice paddies) is a
chickens--had been destroyed plant that will grow
by the fire. rice. In English version
novel, the translator
borrowed the word
padi with adding –es to
show plurality. And to
make it clear what
paddies is, the
translator added the
word rice before
paddies. The strategy
used is calque.
280 LOAN
The heartbeat of Paruk Brondol is kind of small
probably began with the bird belonging to the
popping sounds of legume genus Lonchura tribe
pods bursting to spread their Estrildidae. The word
seeds after being heated by brondol is retained in
the sun, with the squeak of target text. The
bamboo stalks rubbing strategy used is loan.
together in a gentle breeze,
and with a pair of brondol birds
busily carrying dried grass to
their nest behind the sterms of
the thick areca plant.
280 GENERALISATION
Or perhaps it began with a Pohon bungur is the
spring of water at the base of tree with purple, pink
the trees, a gushing stream or white flowers, the
 tidak ingin tahu akan
segala macam
bencana yang telah
sekian kali menimpa
orang-orang yang
biasa bersibak dengan
kesejukannya.
7 BURUNG CELEPUK 9 AN OWL
Ketika telinganya
menangkap suara
burung celepuk Rasus
merasa telah kembali
ke alam keseharian.
8 BIJI KETAPANG 12
Meski tak ada lagi
tembang ronggeng
atau irama calung
namun sudah
terdengar tawa anak-
anak ketika mereka
berebut biji
ketapang. Biji yang
keras mereka
pecahkan, isinya putih
dan gurih.
9 JANTUNG PISANG 12
Lihatlah anak-anak itu
yang sedang
that wasn’t at all interested in
the calamities that had struck
the people who parted its
waters to enjoy its coolness.
On hearing the call of an owl,
Rasus felt that he had returned
to the everyday world.
NUTS THAT HAD FALLEN
FROM NEARBY KETAPANG
TREE
Despite the absence of the
singing of the ronggeng or the
percussive sounds of the
calung ensemble, the air was
again filled with laughter of
children as they looked for
nuts that had fallen from a
nearby ketapang tree,
breaking open the hard shell
and savoring the soft white
meat inside.
BANANA BLOSSOMS
They roamed the empty
gardens, looking for anything
woods is used for
house poles. The
translator has
rendered the word
pohon bungur (which is
specific) into trees only
(which is general),
instead of borrowing
the word. So the
strategy used is
generalization.
291 GENERALISATION
Burung celepuk is a
typical owl that mostly
belongs to the genus
Otus. It is like a scops
owl, but the translator
has rendered it into
owl, which is general.
So, the strategy used is
generalization.
308 DESCRIPTIVE
EQUIVALENT
Biji Ketapang is a nut
from large tropical tree
in the leadwood tree
family. It has wide
leaves and has hard-
shelled fruit. The seed
can be extracted into
oil. The word biji
ketapang is translated
into “nuts that had
fallen from nearby
ketapang tree”, to
make the word clear
and can be well
understood by the
reader. The strategy
used descriptive
equivalent.
308 CULTURAL
SUBSTITUTION
Jantung pisang is a
 berkeliaran di
pekarangan-
pekarangan kosong
mencari apa saja yang
bisa dimakan; umbi-
umbian, jantung
pisang atau buah
katilayu. Gangsir dan
orong-orong digali dari
tanah, pohon salam
dipanjat agar mereka
dapat mengulum kulit
buahnya yang masak,
sarang burung, bahkan
sarang semut diambil
telurnya.
10 CICAK DAN TOKEK 13
Nestapa apa namanya
ketika Dukuh Paruk
merasa segala cicak
dan tokek ikut
mencibir dan
menertawakannya?
that could be eaten, seeking
tubers, banana blossoms, and
fruit, digging up grasshoppers
and crickets from the ground
or climbing the branches of
trees to pick ripe fruits, eggs
from bird nests, and even
larvae from and ant nests.
LIZARDS
What kind of sorrow had made
the villagers feel as if even the
lizards laughed at them in
contempt?
banana flower that will
exchange into bananas
when it cooked.
English has the same
terms with jantung
pisang. It is banana
blossoms which has
the same meaning—
the flower of banana
or banana heart. So,
the strategy used is
cultural substitution.
309 GENERALIZATION
Tokek is a type of
lizard that has a large
body, has a rough skin,
a speckled pattern, a
loud voice (which the
voice sounds likes its
name “tokek”). It lives
in a house or trees,
etc. The translator has
deleted it. The word
tokek is not too
significant to translate
because the word
“lizards” has already
included tokek
(because tokek is a
kind of lizards).