transliterate

English

Etymology

From Latin transliterātum, past participle of transliterō, from trans (“across”) + literō , from littera (“letter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈlɪtəɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Verb

transliterate (third-person singular simple present transliterates, present participle transliterating, simple past and past participle transliterated)

1. (transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.

Derived terms

• back-transliterate

Related terms

• transliteral, transliterally
• transliteration
• transliterator

 

Translations

to represent letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script

• Armenian: գրադարձել (hy) (gradarjel)
• Belarusian: транслітары́раваць impf or pf (translitarýravacʹ), транслітарава́ць impf or pf (translitaravácʹ)
• Bulgarian: транслитери́рам impf or pf (transliteríram)
• Catalan: transliterar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 進行轉寫／进行转写 (jìnxíng zhuǎnxiě), 進行[[]]／进行[[]] (jìnxíng)

• Czech: transliterovat impf or pf
• Dutch: omschrijven (nl), translitereren
• Estonian: translitereerima
• Finnish: translitteroida (fi)
• French: translittérer (fr)
• Galician: transliterar (gl)
• German: transliterieren (de), umschreiben (de)
• Hungarian: átbetűz, transzliterál, betűnként/betű szerint átír
• Irish: traslitrigh
• Italian: traslitterare
• Japanese: 字訳する (じやくする, jiyaku suru), 書き写す (ja) (かきうつす, kakiutsusu)
• Korean: 자역하다 (jayeokhada), 음역하다 (ko) (eumyeokhada)
• Latvian: transliterēt
• Lithuanian: transliteruoti
• Macedonian: транслитери́ра impf or pf (transliteríra)
• Persian: حرف‌نویسی کردن (harf-nevisi kardan), نویسه‌گردانی کردن (nevise-gardâni kardan)
• Polish: transliterować (pl) impf or pf
• Portuguese: transliterar (pt)
• Russian: транслитери́ровать (ru) impf or pf (transliterírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: транслитери́рати impf or pf

  Roman: transliterírati impf or pf

• Slovak: transliterovať impf or pf
• Slovene: transliterirati impf or pf
• Spanish: transliterar (es)
• Swedish: translitterera (sv), transkribera (sv)
• Thai: ทับศัพท์ (th) (táp-sàp)
• Tibetan: ཡིག་གཟུགས་ཕབ་སྒྱུར་བྱས (yig gzugs phab sgyur byas)
• Ukrainian: транслітерува́ти impf or pf (transliteruváty)
• Vietnamese: chuyển tự (vi), dịch âm, chuyển dịch (vi)
• Welsh: trawslythrennu

See also

• transcribe

Further reading

• “transliterate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “transliterate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Spanish

Verb

transliterate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of transliterar combined with te