Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of transliterating; the rendering of a letter or letters of one alphabet by equivalents in another.
Wiktionary
- n. linguistics, translation studies The act or product of transliterating, or of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.
- n. sign language The act or product of rendering speech in sign language, or vice versa.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a transcription from one alphabet to another
Etymologies
- From Latin transliteratus past participle of transliterare ("to transliterate"), from trans- ("across") + littera ("letter"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In Japanese it is merely a transliteration of the English word, not a translation, and I have never seen the Fairtrade mark appearing on Japanese products, so I must say I am a bit skeptical of these numbers, even though the survey was conducted by the reputable firm Macromill Inc.”
“(The Spanish transliteration is in one of the posts above).”
“Perhaps U.K. to U.S. English transliteration is to accommodate the perceived audience for the book.”
“As a side note, the word "Satan" isn't a name, it is a transliteration of the Hebrew word "Ha'Satan" meaning, "the accuser, or the adversary".”
“Hint, in English transliteration of Arabic, K and G are often interchanged; second hint — what does “Gamal” mean in Hebrew?”
“Every intellectually rigorous teacher of Kabbalah whom I know of spells the word, in English transliteration, "Kabbalah.”
Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah Part 5: Choosing A Teacher
“According to the latter work, Job had two wives, the first of whom was named Uzit (in Greek transliteration: Sitidos), after the land of Uz where Job and his wife lived, and who, according to the appendix to the Septuagint, was an Arab woman.”
““Yi” is a transliteration from the Chinese using a system called “Pinyin.””
“So it is very well-known, even in Latin transliteration, no need to repeat it in russian.”
“In each case the Hamzah – Alif, although scarcely audible to our ear, is the real letter and might fitly be rendered in transliteration by the above mentioned silent h, wherever we make an Arabic word begin with a vowel not preceded by any other sign.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘transliteration’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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trans-
across or beyond; on or to the other side; through; going beyond
transcendent, transform, transonic, transalpine, transcontinental, transparent, transparency, transportation, transport, transatlantic, transfer, translate and 30 more...
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WF - all types of word formation
My ambition is to build a list with the names for
1. ALL types of word formation
2. the words put together by 1.
using a strict definition: e.g. "antonym", "aptronym" "palindrom...camel case, incapping, suffixing, capitalization, compound, agglutination, back-formation, blending, acronym, clipping, calque, semantic loan and 56 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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translation
translationese, dragoman, literal translation, word-for-word tra..., simultaneous tran..., targum, chuchotage, transliteration, sound translation, paraphrase, paraphrast, interlanguage
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Concepts
The world falls into place when you discover that there is a name for that amorphous idea that previously you were only able to half-conceive of.
liberation theology, heteronormative, transliterate, transliteration, dhimmi, dotsam and netsam, infinite loop, cliterati, weekend, morula, hefted
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General Collectibles
Amassing a good trove for starters.
ancient, parallax, temporal, placket, salient, replete, synecdoche, abstruse, abject, parse, discursive, egress and 39 more...
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Chris4d's Words
transliteration, curriculum vitae, samizdat, ersatz, shoegaze, insouciant, enfilade, anhedonia, kismet, kvetch, desire line, argot and 19 more...
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Anthrolocution
Work-related words.. It can have anything to do with human anatomy, linguistics, academic social structures, or archaeological artefacts.
mastoid process, formative, bioarchaeology, external auditory..., zygomatic, squamous, osteology, core-periphery po..., hegemony, niche, epicondyle, iliac and 61 more...
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letters and words
tautology, neologism, litotes, alliteration, amanuensis, anthropomorphism, logophile, malapropism, metonymy, mnemonics, onomatopoeia, palindrome and 13 more...
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Words That Wordie Has Taught Me
New words that I've learned on Wordie.
contronym, callipygian, apostate, nyctophobia, transliteration, copyleft, mudita, inchoate, manualism, ithyphallic, diacritics, nastygram and 26 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for transliteration.

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