CashuMints.space/web/src/i18n/GLOSSARY.md

Translation glossary

The terms this site keeps consistent across every language. Decide a term once here, then use it everywhere: a reader who meets "reseña" on the home page and "opinión" on a mint page has to work out whether they are the same thing.

Adding a language starts here, not in the catalog. Fill in the column, then translate en.json with it beside you.

The table has columns for the three hand-written languages. The other twenty-one catalogs were machine-translated in bulk, and only six of them (de, da, sv, id, vi, tr) have since had the first row of this table applied throughout: in those, a mint is a mint. The remaining fifteen keep the machine's word for it below the chrome, which is usually the local term for a coin factory. A native pass on one of them means adding its column here first, then working through xx.json against it. The house rules below hold in every language, translated column or not, and the first row of the table is the one the machine got wrong most often.

House rules, in every language

• Sentence case. Headings, buttons, labels. Not Title Case, not ALL CAPS. (Small caps on section labels come from CSS, so the source string stays sentence case.)
• No em dashes. Ever, in any language. Use a comma, a colon, or two sentences. Spanish and Dutch both reach for the em dash naturally; do not.
• Specific over clever. "Offline since 3 Aug 2026" beats "this mint has gone quiet".
• Second person, informal. Spanish tú, Dutch je. Never usted, never u.
• Protocol terms stay English. See the table.
• Never translate data. Review text, reviewer names, mint names, mint descriptions, MOTD, URLs, npubs, version strings. Those are source data, not site copy.

The terms

English	Spanish	Dutch	Note
mint (noun)	el mint	de mint	Never "casa de la moneda" / "munt". It is the Cashu term.
mint (verb)	acuñar	minten	Spanish spells it out once per page then uses it plainly.
melt (verb)	fundir	melten	Same rule as mint.
minting	la acuñación	minten
melting	el fundido	melten
ecash	ecash	ecash	Never "dinero electrónico".
sat / sats	sat / sats	sat / sats	Never translated, never inflected.
Lightning	Lightning	Lightning	Capital L, no article games.
NUT / NUT-04	NUT / NUT-04	NUT / NUT-04	The number is the name. The plain-language label beside it IS translated.
Nostr	Nostr	Nostr
NIP-87, NIP-07, NIP-46	unchanged	unchanged
relay	el relay	de relay	Plural: relays. Not "retransmisor" / "doorgeefluik".
signer	el firmante	de signer	Dutch keeps the loanword: NL Nostr users say "signer".
review (the written thing)	la reseña	de review
rating (the stars)	la valoración	de beoordeling	Deliberately a different word from review in all three.
reviewer	quien escribió la reseña	wie de review schreef	Avoid a noun that implies a role or an account.
wallet	el monedero	de wallet	Spanish follows bitcoin.org/es. Dutch keeps the loanword.
key (private/public)	la clave	de sleutel
npub / pubkey	npub / pubkey	npub / pubkey
custodial	custodial	custodiaal	Always followed by what it means, never left bare.
online (a mint)	en línea	online
offline (a mint)	sin conexión	offline	Shorter than "fuera de línea" and standard for a status.
unreachable	no responde	onbereikbaar
uptime	disponibilidad	uptime
indexed	indexado	geïndexeerd
to probe (a mint)	comprobar	controleren
mint URL	la URL del mint	de mint-URL
bunker link	el enlace bunker	de bunker-link	bunker:// itself is never translated.
seed phrase	la frase semilla	de seed phrase
Fedimint	Fedimint	Fedimint	The project's name. Never inflected, never translated.
federation	la federación	de federatie	The thing a Fedimint is. Not "el fedimint".
guardian	el guardián	de guardian	Who runs a federation. Dutch keeps the loanword, as with signer.
invite code	el código de invitación	de invite code	The fed11… string. Spanish translates it, Dutch does not: NL users say "invite code".
federation id	el id de la federación	het federatie-id	The 64 hex characters. Never "identificador".
module	el módulo	de module	ln, mint, wallet. The short name itself is never translated.
announced (a federation)	anunciada	aangekondigd	Its own status. NOT a synonym for unknown: see the note below.
confirmed (a federation)	confirmada	bevestigd	Something outside this site checked and it answered.
network (mainnet, signet)	la red	het netwerk	The network names themselves stay English.
LNURL	LNURL	LNURL	Always capitals, never inflected, never translated.
lnurlcash	lnurlcash	lnurlcash	Lowercase, always. The protocol's own spelling (LUD-25), like ecash.
LNURL mint	el mint LNURL	de LNURL mint	The thing, not "LNURL-acuñadora". Same noun as a Cashu mint, so it takes the same article and the same word.
bearer note	la nota al portador	het toonderbriefje	What an LNURL mint issues. Spanish uses the financial term; Dutch uses the everyday compound. Never "billete" / "biljet" alone, which loses the point that whoever holds it owns it.
to rotate (a note)	rotar	roteren	Replacing a note's secret without changing its value. Not "girar" / "draaien".
to split (a note)	dividir	splitsen	One note becomes two.
to merge (notes)	fusionar	samenvoegen	Several notes become one.
LUD-03, LUD-06, LUD-16, LUD-21, LUD-25	unchanged	unchanged	Same rule as NUT-04: the number is the name. The plain-language label beside it IS translated.
withdraw (an LNURL mint)	la retirada	de opname	The LNURL side of melting. Deliberately the same word the Cashu warnings already use for "withdrawals disabled", so one reader meets one concept.
mint pubkey	la clave pública del mint	de publieke sleutel van de mint	The funding node's identity key. Its own thing, distinct from a Cashu mint's /v1/info pubkey.
lightning address	la dirección Lightning	het Lightning-adres	The name@host form (LUD-16). Never translate the @.
Tor / onion address	la dirección Tor	het Tor-adres	Tor keeps its capital T. "Onion" is never translated.
funding source	el nodo Lightning	de Lightning-node	Deliberately NOT a literal "fuente de financiación" / "financieringsbron", which reads as an investor. The copy names the thing a reader can picture: the mint's Lightning node.
Anon (a reviewer)	Anón	Anon	The label for a reviewer with no kind-0 profile. Site copy, so it IS translated: Spanish shortens "anónimo" to match the label's width, Dutch keeps "anon" because that is what NL Nostr users write. Decided 2026-08; used by the label and the "hide anon" filter alike.

Two decisions worth knowing

Spanish spells out mint and melt on first use, then stops. acuñar (mint) the first time a page uses it, acuñar after that. Spanish-speaking Bitcoin readers know the English verbs, but a page that only ever says "mint" reads as untranslated. Dutch does not need this: minten and melten are what NL and BE Nostr users actually write.

Dutch keeps more English than Spanish does. review, wallet, signer, online, uptime are all ordinary Dutch now, and translating them ("beoordeling" for the written review, "portemonnee", "ondertekenaar") reads as stiff or, worse, as a different concept. Spanish translates more, because Spanish tech writing does.

"Unavailable" is not "not supported", on an LNURL mint. The Features panel has three states where the Cashu NUTs panel has three and the Fedimint Modules panel has two. A feature the operator never announced is not announced (lnurl.features.notListed); one they did announce but that cannot work right now, because the mint's Lightning node is unreachable, is unavailable (lnurl.features.unavailable). Those are different facts — "they never built it" against "it is built and broken today" — and a language that uses one word for both loses the distinction the panel exists to draw.

"Announced" is not "unknown", in any language. A Cashu mint that has not been probed yet is status.unknown: we have not looked. A federation that is status.announced is one nobody can look at — there is no check to run, and there may never be. Translating both with the same word throws away the only distinction the page is making, so pick two words and keep them apart: Sin comprobar aún against Solo anunciada, Nog niet gecontroleerd against Alleen aangekondigd.

Safety copy

The warning banners (mint.warnings.*) and the disclaimer are the copy someone reads before they risk money. Translate them for plain, unambiguous meaning, not word for word. If a literal translation is ambiguous about whether money can get out of a mint, the translation is wrong even if every word is right. Short sentences. No hedging.