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transliterate

[trans-lit-uh-reyt, tranz-] / trænsˈlɪt əˌreɪt, trænz- /






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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

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

From The Guardian Feb. 19, 2013

Though most of the world’s languages have no written form, people are beginning to transliterate their mother tongues into the alphabet of a national language.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2011

At the same time, I am reading the translation of the three “Kings,” and transliterate some passages.

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

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

Besides being bigger, ravens can be distinguished from crows by the croaking sound they make, which the Cornell Lab of Ornithology transliterates as “cr-r-ruck.”

From New York Times Oct. 23, 2016

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

She remembered seeing that her mother had transliterated the words in her score for Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” into Chinese, so that she could pronounce them correctly.

From New York Times May 9, 2023

Team officials also asked them to take those transliterated names.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 13, 2022

Then again, that style was forged in private with no sense of an audience, as she transliterated, for example, R.E.M.’s cryptic mumbles into her own gender-flipped riddles.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2021

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




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