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transliteration - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun
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noun linguistics, translation studies The act or product of transliterating , or of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script .noun sign language The act or product of rendering speech in sign language , or vice versa.
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Etymologies
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From Latin transliteratus past participle of transliterare ("to transliterate"), from trans- ("across") + littera ("letter").
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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.
Whew, I’m legal, I think! 2009
(The Spanish transliteration is in one of the posts above).
getting a CURP 2008
Perhaps U.K. to U.S. English transliteration is to accommodate the perceived audience for the book.
I say pyjama… 2008
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".
LOSTCasts 86: The Package 2010
Hint, in English transliteration of Arabic, K and G are often interchanged; second hint — what does “Gamal” mean in Hebrew?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
(The Spanish transliteration is in one of the posts above).
getting a CURP 2008
Hint, in English transliteration of Arabic, K and G are often interchanged; second hint — what does “Gamal” mean in Hebrew?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident 2010
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 2009
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.
Wife of Job: Apocrypha. 2009
“Yi” is a transliteration from the Chinese using a system called “Pinyin.”
Matthew Yglesias » Yi 2007
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