transliterate

Example Sentences

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“I wanted to transliterate an energetic, vigorous, daring collection.”

From Reuters

Brands that are neither translated nor Romanized nor transliterated from another language, and which may contain words, or names, that do not seem to refer to the products they sell.

From Seattle Times

Chi, which looks like an “X,” is most often transliterated as a hard “ch,” as in “chaos.”

From The New Yorker

On the way to the United States, her father, “obsessed with a bombshell blonde / transliterated ‘Mei Ling’ to ‘Marilyn.’

From Washington Post

Sometimes the crew transliterates a dish’s name in a way that requires decoding at the table.

From Washington Post