transliteration

Noun

Meaning

The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

translation rendering transcription rendition paraphrase interlinear transcript decipherment transliterate restatement clavis metaphrase metagraphy

Antonyms

miscellany problem mixture confusion obscurity mess
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Phrases with the word

back-transliteration latin transliteration

Examples

Transliteration of Hebrew statement meaning "The UN-Blah!", quoted in Israel : From War to Peace?: The First Hundred Years (2000) by Efraim Karsh, p. 40. David Ben-Gurion

Transliteration (pinyin): Fáng rén zhī xīn bùkě wú. Chinese Proverb

Transliteration (pinyin): Fú wú chóng zhì, huòbùdānxíng. Chinese Proverb

Transliteration (pinyin): Sān gè héshàng méi shuǐ hē. Chinese Proverb

Transliteration (pinyin): Zìzhù zhě tiānzhù. Chinese Proverb

A common alternative Māori name for Saturday is the transliteration Hatarei. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

transliteratable transliterate transliterated transliterational transliterator transload