transliterate

English

Etymology

From Latin transliterātum, past participle of transliterō, from trans (“across”) + literō , from littera (“letter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈlɪtəɹeɪt/

Verb

1. (transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.

Related terms

• transliteral, transliterally
• transliteration
• transliterator

 

Translations

to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script

• Armenian: գրադարձել (hy) (gradarjel)
• Catalan: transliterar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: （進行）轉寫／（进行）转写 (zh), （进行）转写 (zh) ([jìnxíng] zhuǎnxiě), （進行）音譯／（进行）音译 (zh), （进行）音译 (zh) ([jìnxíng] yīnyì)

• Czech: transliterovat
• Dutch: omschrijven (nl), translitereren
• Finnish: translitteroida (fi)
• French: translittérer (fr)
• Galician: transliterar (gl)
• German: transliterieren (de), umschreiben (de)
• Irish: traslitrigh
• Italian: traslitterare
• Japanese: 字訳する (じやくする, jiyaku suru), 書き写す (かきうつす, kakiutsusu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 자역하다 (jayeokhada), 음역하다 (ko) (eumyeokhada)
• Lithuanian: transliteruoti
• Persian: حرف‌نویسی کردن (harf-nevisi kardan), نویسه‌گردانی کردن (nevise-gardâni kardan)
• Portuguese: transliterar (pt)
• Russian: транслитери́ровать (ru) impf or pf (transliterírovatʹ)
• Spanish: transliterar (es)
• Swedish: translitterera, transkribera (sv)
• Thai: ทับศัพท์ (th) (táp-sàp)
• Tibetan: ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཕབ་སྒྱུར་བྱས (yig gzugs phab sgyur byas)
• Vietnamese: chuyển tự (vi)
• Welsh: trawslythrennu

See also

• transcribe

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.