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English
Etymology
From Latin transliterātum , past participle of transliterō , from trans ( “ across ” ) + literō , from littera ( “ letter ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /tɹænzˈlɪtəɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Verb
transliterate (third-person singular simple present transliterates , present participle transliterating , simple past and past participle transliterated )
( transitive ) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system .
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script
Armenian: գրադարձել (hy) ( gradarjel )
Belarusian: транслітары́раваць impf or pf ( translitarýravacʹ ) , транслітарава́ць impf or pf ( translitaravácʹ )
Bulgarian: транслитери́рам impf or pf ( transliteríram )
Catalan: transliterar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 進行 轉寫 / 进行 转写 ( jìnxíng zhuǎnxiě ) , 進行 [[]]/ 进行 [[]] ( jìnxíng )
Czech: transliterovat impf or pf
Dutch: omschrijven (nl) , translitereren
Estonian: translitereerima
Finnish: translitteroida (fi)
French: translittérer (fr)
Galician: transliterar (gl)
German: transliterieren (de) , umschreiben (de)
Hungarian: átbetűz , transzliterál , betűnként /betű szerint átír
Irish: traslitrigh
Italian: traslitterare
Japanese: 字訳する ( じやくする, jiyaku suru ) , 書き写す (ja) ( かきうつす, kakiutsusu )
Korean: 자역하다 ( jayeokhada ) , 음역하다 (ko) ( eumyeokhada )
Latvian: transliterēt
Lithuanian: transliteruoti
Macedonian: транслитери́ра impf or pf ( transliteríra )
Persian: حرفنویسی کردن ( harf-nevisi kardan ) , نویسهگردانی کردن ( nevise-gardâni kardan )
Polish: transliterować (pl) impf or pf
Portuguese: transliterar (pt)
Russian: транслитери́ровать (ru) impf or pf ( transliterírovatʹ )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: транслитери́рати impf or pf
Roman: transliterírati impf or pf
Slovak: transliterovať impf or pf
Slovene: transliterirati impf or pf
Spanish: transliterar (es)
Swedish: translitterera (sv) , transkribera (sv)
Thai: ทับศัพท์ (th) ( táp-sàp )
Tibetan: ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཕབ་སྒྱུར་བྱས ( yig gzugs phab sgyur byas )
Ukrainian: транслітерува́ти impf or pf ( transliteruváty )
Vietnamese: chuyển tự (vi) , dịch âm , chuyển dịch (vi)
Welsh: trawslythrennu
See also
Further reading
“transliterate ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC .
“transliterate ”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC .
Spanish
Verb
transliterate
second-person singular voseo imperative of transliterar combined with te