Romanization

See also: romanization

English

Alternative forms

• romanization
• Romanisation, romanisation (non-Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

romanize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

Romanization (plural Romanizations)

1. (usually uncountable) The act or process of putting text into the Latin (Roman) alphabet, by means such as transliteration and transcription.
2. (countable) An instance (a string) of text transliterated or transcribed from another alphabet into the Latin alphabet.
   • 1989, David E. Mungello, Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology, ISBN 0824812190, page 160:

     As an alternate name for Sakyamuni, Kircher gave "Omyto", which is a romanization of A-mi-to-fu, whom Kircher stated was commonly called "Amida", i.e., the Japanese pronunciation.

   • 2005, Chris Berry, ‎Feii Lu, Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After (ISBN 9622097154), page 11:

     Furthermore, certain places and people are already internationally well known by particular romanizations of their names, and these romanizations may not conform to any of the official systems detailed above.

Translations

putting text into the Latin (Roman) alphabet

• Arabic: رَوْمَنَة‎ f (rawmana), نَقْحَرَة‎ f (naqḥara), كَرْشَنَة‎ f (karšana)
• Catalan: romanització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 羅馬化 (zh), 罗马化 (zh) (luómǎhuà), 拉丁化 (zh) (lādīnghuà), (of Mandarin) 拼音 (zh) (pīnyīn), 羅馬字 (zh), 罗马字 (zh) (luómǎzì)

• Czech: romanizace f, latinizace f
• Danish: transskription (da)
• Dutch: romanisatie (nl) f
• Finnish: latinisaatio
• French: transcription en caractères romains, romanisation (fr) f
• German: Romanisierung (de) f
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• Japanese: ラテン文字化 (Raten mojika), ローマ字化 (rōmajika), (of Japanese) ローマ字 (ja) (rōmaji)
• Kazakh: латындандыру (latındandırw)
• Korean: 로마자화 (romajahwa) (로마字化), 로마자 (ko) (romaja) (of Korean)
• Macedonian: романизација f (romanizacija), латинизација f (latinizacija)
• Polish: latynizacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: romanização (pt) f
• Russian: латиниза́ция (ru) f (latinizácija), романиза́ция (ru) f (romanizácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: латинизациjа f

  Roman: latinizacija f

• Spanish: romanización (es) f
• Thai: ทำให้เป็นแบบโรมัน (tam hâi bpen bàep rohman)

See also

• transliteration
• transcription
• Latinization

Further reading

• Romanization at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Romanization, romanization, Romanisation, romanisation at Google Ngram Viewer