transliterate
verb
trans·lit·er·ate
tran(t)s-ˈli-tə-ˌrāt 
tranz-
transliterated; transliterating
: to represent or spell in the characters of another alphabet
Examples of transliterate in a Sentence
The Russian letter Я is usually transliterated in English as ya or ia.
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Mother’s behavior cannot merely be transliterated into social history.
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Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Textbooks that simply transliterate English into an Indian script are of limited use, says Aniket Sule, a professor at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education.
—Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
The city has asked translators to furnish names that are transliterated, a process that more closely approximates English pronunciations.
—Amy Qin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The family and its spokespeople have transliterated their names as both Shem and Schem but used the former spelling on place cards at the news conference Tuesday.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
Much of the exhilaration was inspired by the seeming miracles that a new kind of AI—deep learning—was achieving in playing games, recognizing faces, and transliterating voices.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2020
Many attempts have been made to transliterate Chinese in the Latin alphabet.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
The government has also vowed to transliterate candidates’ names in 2021 – a strategy not required by law but used in nearby Boston to make ballots less confusing for Chinese speakers.
—Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2021
The confusion stems from the fact that his native Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and there is no standardized way of transliterating names into the Latin alphabet.
—Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2019
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Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
Textbooks that simply transliterate English into an Indian script are of limited use, says Aniket Sule, a professor at the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education.
—Byvaishnavi Chandrashekhar, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
The city has asked translators to furnish names that are transliterated, a process that more closely approximates English pronunciations.
—Amy Qin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The family and its spokespeople have transliterated their names as both Shem and Schem but used the former spelling on place cards at the news conference Tuesday.
—Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
Much of the exhilaration was inspired by the seeming miracles that a new kind of AI—deep learning—was achieving in playing games, recognizing faces, and transliterating voices.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2020
Many attempts have been made to transliterate Chinese in the Latin alphabet.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
The government has also vowed to transliterate candidates’ names in 2021 – a strategy not required by law but used in nearby Boston to make ballots less confusing for Chinese speakers.
—Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Jan. 2021
The confusion stems from the fact that his native Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and there is no standardized way of transliterating names into the Latin alphabet.
—Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 25 Sep. 2019
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transliterate
verb
trans·lit·er·ate
tran(t)s-ˈlit-ə-ˌrāt
tranz-
transliterated; transliterating
: to represent or spell in the characters of another alphabet
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