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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

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

Any attempt to transliterate classical Chinese would result in a mere jumble of sounds, utterly unintelligible, even with the addition of tone-marks.

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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

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

Sometimes the crew transliterates a dish’s name in a way that requires decoding at the table.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2018

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

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

Her nonconformist style tempts critics to place her in categories where she doesn’t belong — she’s no dull neo-formalist, though she takes pleasure transliterating Shakespeare’s sonnets, delights in reworking phrases from Yeats.

From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2020

“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

When transliterating a multi word phrase, the transliteration is done using the Hebrew word ordering of right to left.

From Rashi by Adele Szold