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I don't see another translation thread up yet, and the folks over on Discord encouraged me to start one! I need a little help finding a good translation of "Library of Imladris" into Sindarin. It doesn't appear that there's a specific word for Library, so I was thinking that something like "House of Books" or "Place of Learning" might work just as well.

Well, the Turkish for library is kütüphane, which I believe is derived from Arabic "kitab" and Persian "khana" book + house, so I reckon you''re on the right lines.
Mar e-Parf??

I imagine mar and adab to be near synonymous. Anybody else have views on this?

Parf/ Perf: Both OK. I was thinking in a more abstract sense e.g. The House of The Book (suggested to me by the Turkish), but the more concrete House of Books would be equally valid IMO.

Oooh, I have a translation question of sorts! Thanks for the thread, Quill!

As mentioned above, I usually use Hisweloke as my source of Sinadrin words. But for elvish (and other) names, I often find myself here: https://realelvish.net/names/. Is there any consensus as to the accuracy of this site? Until just now I hadn't done much poking around the rest of it, but it does look pretty extensive.

@Dorwiniondil and @Laintaen - someone on a Sindarin Facebook group recommended "Parvas" as the word for library. Anyone heard of this? It does seem related to "parf."

@Quill : I haven't come across this. As you say 'par(v)...' looks very probable, but I don't know where the '...(v)as' comes from. I wouldn't say it's wrong, but I'd need to know more.

Dorwiniondil wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 3:23 pm Parf/ Perf: Both OK. I was thinking in a more abstract sense e.g. The House of The Book (suggested to me by the Turkish), but the more concrete House of Books would be equally valid IMO.

When I set up my blog, Parma-kenta, I was advised by one the best that it would be more appropriate to use the singular form as the abstract (my first instinct was Parmar-kenta – as “enquiry into the books”).