transliterate
Example Sentences
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Dodson decided to essentially transliterate the line, despite the grammatical awkwardness it introduces in English: “In the depths of the virgin-forest was born Macunaíma, hero of our people.”
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023
The best an English translation can do is to transliterate the Greek letters—“Ototototoi”—or go with something like “Woe is me!” or “Alas!”
From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019
In attempting to devise an alphabetic system with which to transliterate Chinese, Mr. Zhou was continuing an orthographic tradition that went back at least to the 16th century.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2017
Maybe there was too much internal debate on how to best transliterate it.
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2013
Because the 1910 text contains a Chinese concordance, I was able to transliterate proper names, books, and the like at the risk of making the text more obscure.
From The Art of War by Sunzi (6th cent. BC)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
