Title means: The Fire
NOTE: I am slowly updating this list, which was originally made in
1998-1999. I would really appreciate it if someone would help me with the
titles I don't know. Also, if you know of any other translations that are
not on this list, please let me know. I used Amazon and the OCLC database
as the source for most of these.
Take a look at the covers of the copies of The
Eight in my own collection, including various translations.
Bengali:
The Eight has been translated into Bengali. Here is the
link on Amazon. But I don't know what the title is, in Roman
characters, or how to reproduce the Bengali characters here.
Catalan: El Vuit
Title means: The Eight. I would like to thank Cristina Taberner for this
title.
Chinese: 8 de mi mi
Title means: ??? Another edition has the title Qi zhi mi.
Czech: Velka osma
Title means (according to Google Translate, which isn't always right):
Big Eight. Another edition has the title Osma.
Danish: De Otte
Title means: The Eight.
Dutch: De Acht
Title means: The Eight.
Finnish: Musta Kuningatar
Title means: Black Queen. I'd like to thank Kai Saarto
(ksaarto@tuug.org) for telling me about the Finnish translation. I
just (Aug. 2020) found out about another Finnish translation of The
Eight called Kahdeksan, which means "Eight."
French: Le Huit
Title means: The Eight
German: Das Montglane-Spiel
Title means: The Montglane Game. I have also heard of another German
translation called Das Königliche Spiel (The Game of
Kings).
Greek: Ochto
Title means: Eight
Hebrew: ha-Shemonah
Title means: ???
Hungarian: Nyolc
Title means: Eight
Italian: Il Segreto del Millennio
Title means: The Millennium's Secret
Japanese: 8 (eito)
Title means: Eight (?)
Korean: Eitu
Title means: Eight (?) According to Sandra Yi (yish@pacificu.edu),
the word for "eight" in Korean is "pael" or "yul-duhl". She doesn't
know what "Eitu" means. This is one I got from the OCLC database.
Norwegian: De åtte
Title means: The Eight
Polish: Ósemka
Title means: Eight
Portuguese: O Oito
Title means: The Eight
Portuguese (Brazilian): Enigma do Oito
Title means: The Eight's Enigma
Romanian: Opt
Title means: Eight. Thank you to Viorel Chiricioiu
(v_chiricioiu@yahoo.com) for telling me about this one. It was published
in Sept. 2007.
Russian: Vosem'
Title means: Eight
Serbo-Croatian: Osmica
Title means: The Eight. I would like to thank Zoltan Csala for this one.
It was translated by Mirjana Zivkovic and published by Polaris, in
1989.
Spanish: El Ocho
Title means: The Eight
Swedish: De Åttas Hemlighet
Title means: The Secret of the Eight. I would like to thank Klas Olof
T�rnqwist for this one. It was done by his father in 1989.
Turkish: Sekiz
Title means: Eight
Vietnamese: Bí an bo co' Montglane
Title means: The Secret is (of?) Montglane(?). Another edition has
the title Dam mê. The D has a little line through it,
but I don't know how to do that.
Czech: Pocitac, ktery vykradl banku
Title means (according to Google Translate, which isn't always right):
Computer who robbed the bank
French: Un risque calculé
Title means: A Calculated Risk
German: Das Risiko
Title means: The Risk
Greek: To stoichima
Title means: The Bet
Japanese: Dejitaru no hiho
Title means: ???
Russian: Avantiuristy
Title means: Adventurers(?). Another edition has the title
Avantiuristka.
Serbo-Croatian: Proracunati rizik
Title means: Calculate the risk (?).
Spanish: Riesgo calculado
Title means: Calculated Risk
Dutch: De Magische Cirkel
Title means: The Magic Circle
French: Le Cercle Magique
Title means: The Magic Circle
German: Der magische Zirkel
Title means: The Magic Circle
Greek: Magikos kyklos
Title means: Magic Circle
Japanese: Majikku sakuru
Title means: ???
Polish: Magiczny krag
Title means: Magic Circle (?).
Russian: Magicheskii krug
Title means: Magic Circle
Serbo-Croatian: Magicni krug
Title means: Magic Circle
Spanish: El circulo mágico
Title means: The Magic Circle
Catalan: El Foc
Title means: The Fire
Chinese: Huo de mi mi
Title means: ???. Another edition has the title: Bo huo zhe.
Danish: Den sorte dronning
Title means: The Black Queen
Dutch: Het Vuur
Title means: The Fire
Finnish: Tuli
Title means: Fire
French: Le feu sacré
Title means: The Sacred Fire
German: Die Botschaft des Feuers
Title means: The Message of the Fire
Greek: I fotia
Title means: The Fire
Italian: Il Fuoco
Title means: The Fire
Norwegian: Ilden
Title means: Fire
Polish: Gra
Title means: Game (?).
Portuguese: O Fogo
Title means: The Fire
Russian: Ogon'
Title means: The Fire (?).
Spanish: El Fuego
Title means: The Fire