transliterate
verb (used with object)
to change (letters, words, etc.) into corresponding characters of another alphabet or language.
transliterator
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a word derived from
transliterate.
Example Sentences
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This puts him peculiarly at the mercy of his transliterator, who has a positive genius for choosing the wrong word and depriving any comment of its subtlety, any well-made phrase of its distinction.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
