transliterate
verb (used with object)
to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language.
transliterating
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present participleof transliterate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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We transcribed every handwritten name on the lists into a database, transliterating them from Arabic to English.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
“Simply transliterating Mitsuha and Taki’s star-crossed friendship into English, relocating it to the Pacific Northwest, and hoping for the best would be a disaster of its own,” David Ehrlich wrote on the IndieWire website.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2017
Almost certainly, a native Russian speaker wrote the original material, correctly transliterating the Russian “f” as “ph”.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2017
Arabic writing does not include most vowels, and he’s transliterating the language in his head.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2016
Now a scribe transliterating a poem from an Anglian dialect into West-Saxon should, of course, have altered these forms into the corresponding West-Saxon forms Ȳtena and Ȳtum.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers
