From Latin transliterātum, past participle of transliterō, from trans (“across”) + literō , from littera (“letter”).
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.
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
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- “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.
transliterate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of transliterar combined with te
