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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

Because the 1910 text contains a Chinese concordance, I was able to transliterate proper names, books, and the like at the risk of making the text more obscure.

From The Art of War by Sunzi (6th cent. BC)

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

Team officials also asked them to take those transliterated names.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2022

In Chaucer’s time, spelling was less standard and people often simply transliterated pronunciations onto the page.

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2020

But this wasn’t just hip-hop; the RZA transliterated a supernatural creole of comic books and 5 Percent Islam, criminology rap and creaky Memphis soul samples, kung fu flicks and street hustler slang.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 16, 2020

Mohan opens his book and starts reciting the transliterated words.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

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

Now a scribe transliterating a poem from an Anglian dialect into West-Saxon should, of course, have altered these forms into the corresponding West-Saxon forms Ȳtena and Ȳtum.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers