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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

From this we get many English words, e.g. letter, literate, literal, literature, illiterate, obliterate, transliterate, etc. mirage.

From Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

Otherwise, though, from the opener “Bigger,” The Gift transliterates the leonine royal-family drama and “circle of life” worldview of The Lion King into the recent main leitmotif of Beyoncé’s own work.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2019

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2018

Besides being bigger, ravens can be distinguished from crows by the croaking sound they make, which the Cornell Lab of Ornithology transliterates as “cr-r-ruck.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2016

They included “Edano_my_Angel,” “Edano_go_to_bed” and “Edano_nero,” which transliterates a Japanese word meaning “go to sleep.”

From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 16, 2011

Meaning, till the Church transliterates its entire set of Roman-script liturgical, ritual and other holy books to Devanagiri, the use of Roman Script will not die.

From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

Associated Press journalists saw some walls cracked or partially collapsed in the empty Aksu country village of Youkakeyamansu, a name transliterated in Mandarin from Uyghur.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

She remembered seeing that her mother had transliterated the words in her score for Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” into Chinese, so that she could pronounce them correctly.

From New York Times ● May 9, 2023

In Chaucer’s time, spelling was less standard and people often simply transliterated pronunciations onto the page.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2020

But this wasn’t just hip-hop; the RZA transliterated a supernatural creole of comic books and 5 Percent Islam, criminology rap and creaky Memphis soul samples, kung fu flicks and street hustler slang.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020

The Islamic statement of faith, in transliterated Arabic: there is no God but God.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

We transcribed every handwritten name on the lists into a database, transliterating them from Arabic to English.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2022

“Simply transliterating Mitsuha and Taki’s star-crossed friendship into English, relocating it to the Pacific Northwest, and hoping for the best would be a disaster of its own,” David Ehrlich wrote on the IndieWire website.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2017

Almost certainly, a native Russian speaker wrote the original material, correctly transliterating the Russian “f” as “ph”.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2017

Arabic writing does not include most vowels, and he’s transliterating the language in his head.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2016

We had also an idea of transliterating in Bengali the name of each foreign country as pronounced by itself.

From My Reminiscences by Sasi Kumar Hesh