Lexical Meanings and Mistranslation: an Analysis of English Translation of Munshi Premchand's Short Stories

This study is qualitative in nature and aims to highlight a genuine difficulty with the translation that many foreign translators have. Put another way,idiomatic expressions cultural terms cannot be translated easily. They need very carefully, keeping view intercultural subtleties. In this study, Munshi Premchand’s three short stories originally written Urdu into English have been selected for analysis. These shore are Eidgah, Qazaaqi, Kafan respectively by KhuswantSingh, Fatima Rizvi Frances W. Pritchett. The concludes translators, especially those whose own mother language other than source language, hard time translating idiomatic embedded culture of because they not fully aware transnational intricacies pragmatics. what creates mistranslation misleading meanings.