TRANSLITERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transliterate mean? 

• TRANSLITERATE (verb)
  The verb TRANSLITERATE has 1 sense:

1. rewrite in a different script

  Familiarity information: TRANSLITERATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSLITERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they transliterate    ... he / she / it transliterates   
Past simple: transliterated   
Past participle: transliterated   
-ing form: transliterating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rewrite in a different script

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

transcribe; transliterate

Context example:

The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated

Hypernyms (to "transliterate" is one way to...):

rewrite (write differently; alter the writing of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transliterate"):

Latinise; Latinize; Romanise; Romanize (write in the Latin alphabet)

braille (transcribe in braille)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

transliteration (a transcription from one alphabet to another)