retransliterate

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English

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Etymology

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From re- +‎ transliterate.

Verb

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retransliterate (third-person singular simple present retransliterates, present participle retransliterating, simple past and past participle retransliterated)

  1. To transliterate again.
  2. To take a word, name, spelling, etc., which has been transliterated from one language to another, and transliterate it back to the first language, using standard transliteration rules instead of merely returning it to its original form.