romanisation

English

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Etymology

From the verb romanise.

Pronunciation

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Alternative forms

• romanization

Noun

romanisation (plural romanisations)

1. Putting text into the Latin (Roman) alphabet.

Usage notes

• Latin transliteration refers to the romanisation of text in an alphabetic script, but not for the romanisation of text in a logographic script, especially as for many Asian languages.

Translations

Putting text into the Latin (Roman) alphabet

Arabic: رومنة (ar) (ráwmana) f., نقحرة (ar) (náqHara) f., كرشنة (ar) (kárshana) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 羅馬化 (cmn), 罗马化 (cmn) (Luómǎhuà), 拉丁化 (cmn) (Lādīnghuà), (of Mandarin) 拼音 (cmn) (pīnyīn), 羅馬字 (cmn), 罗马字 (cmn) (Luómǎzì) Czech: romanizace (cs) f., latinizace (cs) f. Dutch: romanisatie (nl) f. Finnish: latinisaatio (fi) French: transcription en caractères romains, romanisation (fr) f. German: Romanisierung (de) f. Hebrew: please add this translation if you can: Hindi: please add this translation if you can: Japanese: ラテン文字化 (ja) (Raten mojika), ローマ字化 (ja) (Rōmajika), (of Japanese) ローマ字 (ja) (Rōmaji)

Korean: 로마자화 (ko) (Romajahwa) (로마字化), 로마자 표기 (로마字 表記, romaja pyogi) Macedonian: романизација (mk) (romanizácija) f., латинизација (mk) (latinizácija) f. Polish: latynizacja (pl) f. Portuguese: romanização (pt) f. Russian: латинизация (ru) (latinizácija) f., романизация (ru) (romanizácija) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: латинизациjа (sr) f. Latin: latinizacija (sr) f. Spanish: romanización (es) f. Thai: ทำให้เป็นแบบโรมัน (th)

See also

• transliteration
• transcription
• Appendix:Hepburn Chart
• McCune-Reischauer
• Pinyin
• Wade-Giles

References

• NOAD
• “romanize” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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French

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Noun

romanisation f.

1. romanization (Putting text into the Latin (Roman) alphabet)

This French entry was created from the translations listed at romanization. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see romanisation in the French Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) July 2009