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transliterate, v.|trɑːnsˈlɪtəreɪt, træns-, -nz-|
[f. trans- 1 + L. littera letter, written symbol + -ate3.]
trans. To replace (letters or characters of one language) by those of another used to represent the same sounds; to write (a word, etc.) in the characters of another alphabet. Hence transˈliterated ppl. a.
1861Max Müller in Sat. Rev. 9 Mar. 247/1 Not only proper names, but the technical terms also of the Buddhist creed, had to be preserved in Chinese. They were not to be translated, but to be transliterated. But how was this to be effected with a language which, like Chinese, has no phonetic alphabet? 1861G. Moore Lost Tribes 158, I transliterate the words into modern Hebrew letters. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §190 To master this alphabet and transliterate passages of English into it. 1884American VII. 378 The transliterated pages and the Devanagari can be kept in sight at the same time. |