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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

The 114 author is apparently unable to transliterate properly the Old English names.

From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

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

Meaning, till the Church transliterates its entire set of Roman-script liturgical, ritual and other holy books to Devanagiri, the use of Roman Script will not die.

From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

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

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

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

The Islamic statement of faith, in transliterated Arabic: there is no God but God.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

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