Table 1. Procedures Involved in the Translation of Foreign Words in A Thousand Splendid Suns into Malay

Translation Procedure No. of Foreign Words %
Retention 119 51
Specification 46 20
Direct Translation 0 0
Generalization 2 1
Substitution 59 26
Omission 5 2
Total 231 100
Adapted from Haroon and Daud (2017: 176) with CC-BY.