单词 | transliterate |
释义 | transliteratev. transitive. To replace (the letters or characters of one alphabet) with those of another, representing as closely as possible the same sounds; to write (a word) in the letters or characters of another alphabet. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > transliteration > transliterate [verb (transitive)] transcribe1724 transliterate1835 1835 Spectator 8 Aug. 759/1 He has translated and abstracted Rask's Essay on the Sibilants, and his mode of transcribing, or rather transliterating, the Georgian and Armenian Languages, [is] a work of more learning than entertainment, and rather curious than useful. 1861 G. Moore Lost Tribes vii. 158 I transliterate the words into modern Hebrew letters. 1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) ii. 184 To master this alphabet and transliterate passages of English into it. ?1882 Articles of Catholic Brotherhood 34 The Bible is already Translated into these languages... But it must be also Transliterated into them. 1957 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 163/2 The technical terms of municipal government are mostly Greek, transliterated into Palmyrene. 2012 J. Wilson-Howarth Glimpse of Eternal Snows (rev. ed.) 378 It [sc. Devanagri] is not easy to transliterate into the astonishingly unphonetic English language. Derivatives transˈliterated adj. ΚΠ 1867 Zeitschr. der Deutsch. Morgenländischen Ges. 21 ii. 3 A transliterated text (in the original Pada form) will be added in order to obviate the necessity of quoting a whole passage again and again in the various notes on the same verse. 1946 F. Lorimer Population Soviet Union 259 In the text proper, the soft sign and hard sign in transliterated Russian names are generally omitted. 2010 J. Al-Khalili Pathfinders (2012) iv. 55 The Greek word chymeia..was passed on to become the transliterated Arabic word kῑmiyā. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1835 |
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