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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

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)

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

The form Samrū, or Shamrū, transliterates the Hindustāni spelling.

From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman

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

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

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