transliterate
IPA: trænsɫˈɪtɝʌt
verb
- (transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.
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Examples of "transliterate" in Sentences
- We should translate, not transliterate.
- He transliterated Greek book into Latin.
- The Ukrainian sources transliterate the name as Ihor.
- The apostrophe is not the proper way to transliterate ayin.
- The intention here is not to transliterate the source language.
- Abandon the hope of using the English alphabet to transliterate Hebrew.
- Please transliterate and translate the title of Theodore of Gaza's book.
- Actually not for how to transliterate from the Arabic alphabet to the Roman alphabet.
- Banks allow clients to transliterate their names as they see fit when they open new accounts.
- Sure, the origination of Hanukkah -- or however you choose to transliterate it -- predates that of Christmas.
- Even better, if I can figure out what each passage or sentence does, I can transliterate that into other emotions.
- The spelling difficulties only happen when you try to transliterate the word into the Latin alphabet that we use to write English.
- Already, Brazilians—aficionados of Global English almost as much as of soccer or futebol—are compelled to transliterate “pickup” as picape and “knockout” as nocaute, and not just to get rid of the ks that look strange to them, but also to nail the foreign vowel sounds.
- The librarians chose to use three different metadata standards: Dublin Core for HTML searching; MARC for UMW's catalog and the catalogs of the partner libraries in Senegal; and Text Encoding Initiative headers for XML/SGML searching, which will also allow people to search for Arabic texts in Arabic instead of trying to transliterate.