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transliterate Definition

trans·lit·er·ate (trans litər āt′, tranz-)

transitive verb -·at′ed, -·at′·ing

to write or spell (words, letters, etc.) in corresponding characters of another alphabet

Etymology: < trans- + L litera, littera, letter + -ate

transliterate Usage Examples

Object

  • word: In this edition, accents on the transliterated Japanese words have been omitted due to them not being present in most european character sets.
  • version: Many of the texts are stored in two forms: the transliterated version in which they were first prepared, and a Unicode version.
  • name: There may be more than one correct way of transliterating a name into Japanese.
  • form: Many scriptures are now directly downloadable in both original Sanskrit and transliterated form with many different translations and commentaries.
  • text: It gives the Sanskrit text transliterated into the Roman alphabet, a translation and a detailed commentary.
  • language: The specialty of the language is that it can transliterate almost all languages of the world with the help of its 52 written characters.

Preposition: into

  • character: They were originally written in Arabic but transliterated into Hebrew characters.

Modifying Another Word

  • usually: It is well written and easy to read although it regularly engages with the Hebrew text ( which is usually transliterated ).
  • not: One word, perhaps ' wrong ' , has been deleted below them. from ] In code, not transliterated.
  • also: Each of these is likewise accompanied by its pronunciation, meaning and an example sentence ( also transliterated and translated ).
  • so: Star names were not translated but transliterated so that to date many stars names are Arabic in origin.
  • just: Egyptologists generally hedge our bets and just transliterate aHaw in both cases.

Preposition: from

  • language: It is the guide for transliterating from publication language to any locally appropriate hardware representations.