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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

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

In 1901, there had been a reform of the German spelling system, changing "th" into "t" in all words where it does not transliterate the Greek letter theta.

From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch

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

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

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

The inhabitants of Dat’s new town are gray cartoonish monsters whose language, transliterated onto the page, is a keysmash of Wingdings; Dat and his mother, by contrast, are full-color and human.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 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

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

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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