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It's not a recognised translation- it's the definition.
If we're going to split hairs then while it's defined in terms of metric units, it doesn't scale with prefixes and factors of 10, so it can't be an S.I. unit.
You're right, the imperial units are not S.I. units, but each (most?) imperial unit is defined by an S.I. unit.