English edit

Etymology edit

re- +‎ transliterate

Verb edit

retransliterate (third-person singular simple present retransliterates, present participle retransliterating, simple past and past participle retransliterated)

  1. To transliterate again.
  2. To take a word, name, spelling, etc., which has been transliterated from one language to another, and transliterate it back to the first language, using standard transliteration rules instead of merely returning it to its original form.