oksel

English translation: corner

08:23 Apr 13, 2013

Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Architecture

Dutch term or phrase: oksel

Hello. I am translating something into Portuguese, but I am trying here first because I may be more lucky. Any help in English or any Romance language would be greatly appreciated. I am writing everything in English and translating everything into English because I may have my fellow Portuguese speaking translators take a look at this later.

The sentence in my translation is:
In de oksel van het gebouw wordt een compleet nieuw te bouwen ondergronds vergadercentrum gecreëerd.

I found this on Wikipedia: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oksel, which did't take me very far: In church construction the oksel is mostly the angle of the nave with the transept.

The agency explained it is something like hoek (angle) or vork (fork, junction, joint), but I am still not sure. It looks as though it is somehow related to an L-shaped building and the oksel (literally armpit) would be where the two legs of an invisible triangle meet.

Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil

English translation:corner

Explanation:
I have a feeling that 'corner' might actually be the safest bet, as suggested by Valerie (here: http://www.translatorscafe.com/tcterms/en-US/thQuestion.aspx... ).

I'm not sure about 'inverted corner' (also sugeested over at TranslatorsCafé), which seems to refer to what is MISSING in a corner, rather than something that is built there.

'semi-enclosed area' (Onroerend Goed Lexicon) seems a bit too vague to be correct

I don't think bow/arch is correct.

Selected response from:

Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:39

Grading comment

I ended up using intersecção em português. Thank you very much for your help.
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Summary of answers provided

4 +1

bow / arch

Alexander Schleber (X)

(van gebouw) semi-enclosed area

Michael Beijer

corner

Michael Beijer

Discussion entries: 5

Answers

26 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

bow / arch

Explanation:
A synonym of oksel is "verbuiging", for which one of the translations is "bow". That would seem to fit perfectly here. By extension this could also bereferred to as an arch.

Alexander Schleber (X)
Belgium
Local time: 05:39
Native speaker of:

German,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

45 mins confidence:

(van gebouw) semi-enclosed area

Explanation:
source: Onroerend Goed Lexicon

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Note added at 51 mins (2013-04-13 09:14:59 GMT)
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see also: het industrieterrein is gelegen in de oksel van de A2 en de A12 = the industrial estate is located in the semi-enclosed area between the A2 and A12 motorways (Onroerend Goed Lexicon )

Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:39
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 24

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you very much for all your effort, Michael.

6 hrs confidence:

corner

Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:39
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 24

Grading comment

I ended up using intersecção em português. Thank you very much for your help.

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