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To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
rewrite in a different script
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: transcribe
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rewrite
Narrower terms: Romanize, Romanise, Latinize, Latinise, braille
From Latin transliterātum, past participle of transliterō, from trans (“across”) + literō , from littera (“letter”).
Across languages
Translations
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
tejshkronjëzoj
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Armenian:
գրադարձել
(gradarjel)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Asturian:
treslliterar
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Azerbaijani:
transliterasiya etmək
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Azerbaijani:
transliterasiya eləmək
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Belarusian:
транслітары́раваць
(translitarýravacʹ)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Belarusian:
транслітарава́ць
(translitaravácʹ)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Bulgarian:
транслитери́рам
(transliteríram)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Catalan:
transliterar
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Chinese Mandarin:
(進行)轉寫 /(进行)转写
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Chinese Mandarin:
(進行)音譯 /(进行)音译
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Czech:
transliterovat
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Dutch:
omschrijven
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Dutch:
translitereren
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Estonian:
translitereerima
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Finnish:
translitteroida
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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French:
translittérer
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Galician:
transliterar
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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German:
transliterieren
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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German:
umschreiben
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Hungarian:
átbetűz
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Hungarian:
transzliterál
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Hungarian:
betűnként/betű szerint átír
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Irish:
traslitrigh
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Italian:
traslitterare
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Japanese:
字訳する
(jiyaku suru)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Japanese:
書き写す
(kakiutsusu)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Korean:
자역하다
(jayeokhada)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Korean:
음역하다
(eumyeokhada)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Latvian:
transliterēt
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Lithuanian:
transliteruoti
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Macedonian:
транслитери́ра
(transliteríra)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Persian:
حرفنویسی کردن
(harf-nevisi kardan)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Persian:
نویسهگردانی کردن
(nevise-gardâni kardan)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Polish:
transliterować
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Portuguese:
transliterar
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Russian:
транслитери́ровать
(transliterírovatʹ)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Serbo-Croatian:
транслитери́рати
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Serbo-Croatian:
transliterírati
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Slovak:
transliterovať
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Slovene:
transliterirati
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Spanish:
transliterar
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Swedish:
translitterera
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Swedish:
transkribera
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Tamil:
ஒலிபெயர்
(olipeyar)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Tamil:
ஒலிபெயர்ப்பு செய்
(olipeyarppu cey)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Thai:
ทับศัพท์
(táp-sàp)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Thai:
ถอดอักษร
(tɔ̀ɔt-àk-sɔ̌ɔn)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Tibetan:
ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཕབ་སྒྱུར་བྱས
(yig gzugs phab sgyur byas)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Ukrainian:
транслітерува́ти
(transliteruváty)
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Vietnamese:
chuyển tự
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Vietnamese:
dịch âm
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Vietnamese:
chuyển dịch
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
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Welsh:
trawslythrennu
— to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script