transliterate
verb (used with object)
to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language.
transliterated
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past participleof transliterate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof transliterate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
transliterateverb (used with object)to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language.
Example Sentences
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Associated Press journalists saw some walls cracked or partially collapsed in the empty Aksu country village of Youkakeyamansu, a name transliterated in Mandarin from Uyghur.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
The inhabitants of Dat’s new town are gray cartoonish monsters whose language, transliterated onto the page, is a keysmash of Wingdings; Dat and his mother, by contrast, are full-color and human.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
Each one has at its center a simulated label emblazoned with that phrase, but transliterated into Japanese.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022
Then again, that style was forged in private with no sense of an audience, as she transliterated, for example, R.E.M.’s cryptic mumbles into her own gender-flipped riddles.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2021
Mohan opens his book and starts reciting the transliterated words.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
