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English
Etymology
From trans- + literation .
Pronunciation
Noun
transliteration (countable and uncountable , plural transliterations )
( linguistics , translation studies ) The act or product of transliterating , of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script .
2018 , James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes , volume 37 , page 251 :This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.
( sign language ) The act or product of rendering speech in sign language , or vice versa.
Derived terms
Translations
product of transliterating
Afrikaans: transliterasie (af)
Albanian: transliterim m
Arabic: نَقْحَرَة (ar) f ( naqḥara ) , كَرْشَنَة f ( karšana ) , ( romanisation ) رَوْمَنَة f ( rawmana )
Armenian: գրադարձություն (hy) ( gradarjutʻyun ) , տառադարձություն (hy) ( taṙadarjutʻyun )
Azerbaijani: transliterasiya
Belarusian: транслітара́цыя f ( translitarácyja ) , трансьлітара́цыя f ( transʹlitarácyja )
Bengali: প্রতিবর্ণীকরণ (bn) ( protibornikron )
Bulgarian: транслитера́ция f ( transliterácija )
Catalan: transliteració (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 譯音 / 译音 ( jik6 jam1 ) , 譯名 / 译名 ( jik6 ming4 )
Mandarin: 轉寫 / 转写 (zh) ( zhuǎnxiě ) , 音譯 / 音译 (zh) ( yīnyì ) , 譯名 / 译名 (zh) ( yìmíng )
Czech: transliterace f
Danish: translitteration (da) c
Dutch: transliteratie (nl) f
Estonian: transliteratsioon
Finnish: translitterointi (fi) , siirtokirjoitus (fi)
French: transcription (fr) f , translittération (fr) f
Friulian: trasliterazion f
Galician: transliteración (gl) f
Georgian: ტრანსლიტერაცია ( ṭransliṭeracia )
German: Transkription (de) f , Transliteration (de) f , Umschrift (de) m , Umschreibung (de) f
Greek: μεταγραμματισμός (el) m ( metagrammatismós )
Hebrew: תַּעְתִּיק (he) m ( ta'tík )
Hindi: लिप्यन्तरण m ( lipyantaraṇ )
Hungarian: átbetűzés , transzliteráció (hu) , betű szerinti / betűnkénti átírás
Icelandic: umritun f
Indonesian: alih aksara (id) , transliterasi (id)
Italian: traslitterazione (it) f
Japanese: ( lexical translation ) 字訳 ( じやく, jiyaku ) , ( phonetical translation ) 音訳 (ja) ( おんやく, on'yaku ) , 翻字 ( ほんじ, honji )
Kazakh: транслитерация ( transliterasiä )
Khmer: អក្សរសព្ទ (km) ( ʼaksɑɑ sap )
Korean: 전자(轉字) (ko) ( jeonja ) , 음역(音譯) (ko) ( eumyeok )
Kyrgyz: транслитерация ( transliteratsiya )
Latin: ( Classical and Vulgar Latin ) transcriptio f , ( Modern Latin ) translitteratio f
Latvian: transliterācija f
Lithuanian: transliteracija f
Macedonian: транслитерација f ( transliteracija )
Malay: transliterasi (ms)
Malayalam: ലിപിമാറ്റം ( lipimāṟṟaṁ ) , ലിപ്യന്തരണം (ml) ( lipyantaraṇaṁ )
Maori: kupu whakawhiti
Norwegian:
Bokmål: translitterasjon (no) m
Persian: حرفنویسی ( harf-nevisi ) , نویسهگردانی (fa) ( nevise-gardâni )
Polish: transliteracja (pl) f
Portuguese: transcrição (pt) f , transliteração (pt) f
Romanian: transcripție (ro) f , transliterație (ro) f
Russian: транслитера́ция (ru) f ( transliterácija ) , транслитери́рование n ( transliterírovanije ) , трансли́т (ru) m ( translít )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: транслитера́ција f , пријеслов m
Roman: transliterácija f , prijeslov m
Slovak: transliterácia f
Slovene: prečrkovanje n , transliteracija f
Spanish: transcripción (es) f , transliteración (es) f
Swedish: translitteration (sv) c , translitterering (sv) c , transkribering (sv) c
Tagalog: transliterasyon
Tajik: транслитератсия ( transliteratsiya ) , нависагардонӣ ( navisagardoni )
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: ప్రతిలేఖనం ( pratilēkhanaṁ )
Thai: คำทับศัพท์ ( kam-táp-sàp )
Turkish: transliterasyon (tr)
Turkmen: transliterasiýa
Ukrainian: транслітера́ція f ( transliterácija )
Urdu: نقل حرفی (ur) f ( naqal harfī )
Uzbek: transliteratsiya (uz)
Vietnamese: sự chuyển chữ
See also