transliteration Definition
trans·lit·era·tion (-lit′ər ā′s̸hən)
noun
- the act or process of transliterating
- a text that is the product of transliterating
transliteration Definition
trans·lit·era·tion
noun
transliteration Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- word: This is a transliteration of the Greek word for " nightmare.
- name: In ancient transliterations of the name of Yehouah into cuneiform script, which unlike Hebrew script, had written vowels, reads Yahweh.
- content: This is a transliteration of the content, as a facsimile would be unreadable.
- text: His research interests include post-Reformation religious art, the visual culture of popular piety, and the visual transliteration of biblical texts.
Converse of object
- use: There is a chart showing the transliterations commonly used in email messages on the Learn To Read Hieroglyphs page.
- include: Several of those drawing on Tibetan written sources include a transliteration or photocopy of the Tibetan text(s ).
- give: It helps if you can already read the Arabic script, but its not necessary as the book gives the transliteration too.
- have: I didn't go to all the trouble to learn Hebrew to have transliterations getting in the way.
Adjective modifier
- phonetic: A close phonetic transliteration of Jesus ' Hebrew name into modern English would be Yeshua ' .
- English: All 18 chapters are included in the original Sanskrit text, with English transliteration.
- Greek: It could be inferred from this that the Greek transliteration may not be a good one.
- different: Sometimes different transliterations ( graphic values ) have the same meaning whether they stem from the same sign or not.
- full: The full transliteration of page 1 is given here.
- Latin: Perseus also allows the display of text in Latin transliteration.
Modifies a noun
- table: Indexing will always be in roman, alpha-numeric order JC to send link to transliteration tables to OPACSub.
- scheme: Omega also has a powerful concept of input and output filters to allow the user to work with existing transliteration schemes, etc.
- system: The standard transliteration system separates each word, while we separate each syllable ( character ).
- convention: In the transliteration conventions followed by the corpus most enclitics are preceded by a hyphen linking them to their host.
- font: Greek, Hebrew and transliteration fonts come on the CD, as well as the text of the AV and ASV.
- operator: You can therefore use the transliteration operator to count the number of occurrences of certain characters.
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