Transliterate (Verb)
Meaning
Rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The ancient Greek manuscript had to be transliterated from its original cursive script to Latin letters for easier reading.
- To translate the Japanese text, it first had to be transliterated from kanji and kana into the Roman alphabet.
- Transliterate the Cyrillic text into Latin characters to facilitate typing on standard keyboards.
- She carefully began to transliterate the hieroglyphics from the Egyptian tomb into more modern writing systems.
- The complex task involved transliterating ancient Chinese texts from oracle bone script to simplified Chinese characters.