transliterate

Dodson decided to essentially transliterate the line, despite the grammatical awkwardness it introduces in English: “In the depths of the virgin-forest was born Macunaíma, hero of our people.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

The best an English translation can do is to transliterate the Greek letters—“Ototototoi”—or go with something like “Woe is me!” or “Alas!”

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019

In attempting to devise an alphabetic system with which to transliterate Chinese, Mr. Zhou was continuing an orthographic tradition that went back at least to the 16th century.

From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2017

Maybe there was too much internal debate on how to best transliterate it.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2013

Haug shall transliterate for me the grammatical forms into your alphabet.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

There’s a word in Japanese that transliterates to “komorebi” and refers to a phenomenon for which there is no single word in English: the quality of light as it filters through foliage.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

The cause was complications from Parkinson’s disease, said his son Saad Alkabli, who transliterates his surname differently.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2021

Otherwise, though, from the opener “Bigger,” The Gift transliterates the leonine royal-family drama and “circle of life” worldview of The Lion King into the recent main leitmotif of Beyoncé’s own work.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2019

They included “Edano_my_Angel,” “Edano_go_to_bed” and “Edano_nero,” which transliterates a Japanese word meaning “go to sleep.”

From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 16, 2011

Persian text transliterates this author’s name as “Draybár” and titles his work The Progress of Peoples.

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Associated Press journalists saw some walls cracked or partially collapsed in the empty Aksu country village of Youkakeyamansu, a name transliterated in Mandarin from Uyghur.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024

In it, a verse by Grade in transliterated Yiddish alludes to both his affection and ambivalence.

From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2023

Each one has at its center a simulated label emblazoned with that phrase, but transliterated into Japanese.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2022

Team officials also asked them to take those transliterated names.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2022

Mohan opens his book and starts reciting the transliterated words.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

We transcribed every handwritten name on the lists into a database, transliterating them from Arabic to English.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2022

“Simply transliterating Mitsuha and Taki’s star-crossed friendship into English, relocating it to the Pacific Northwest, and hoping for the best would be a disaster of its own,” David Ehrlich wrote on the IndieWire website.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2017

Almost certainly, a native Russian speaker wrote the original material, correctly transliterating the Russian “f” as “ph”.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2017

Arabic writing does not include most vowels, and he’s transliterating the language in his head.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2016

The transcriber hopes he did a tolerable job in transliterating the Greek words in the preface.

From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, New Testament by Anonymous