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TRANSLITERATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rewrite in a different script

Example:

The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated

Synonyms:

transcribe; transliterate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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)

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