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
In 1901, there had been a reform of the German spelling system, changing "th" into "t" in all words where it does not transliterate the Greek letter theta.
From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
