Translating idioms from Kurdish to English according to Mona Baker's strategies

الملخص EN

The paper focuses on difficulties translators face when translating idioms from Kurdish to English.

Firstly, idioms are defined and then idioms are translated from Kurdish to English in the light of Mona Baker's strategies.

The data has been gathered from written resources.

The idioms are randomly collected from them and then translated based on the strategies.

It concludes that these strategies are suitable for translating Kurdish idioms though the translators face difficulties when applying these strategies.