英和和英

発音

• IPA: /tɹænzˈlɪtəɹeɪt/

動詞

transliterate (third-person singular simple present transliterates, present participle transliterating, simple past and past participle transliterated)

1. (transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.
   • 2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz‎:

     In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart.

派生語

• back-transliterate

関連する語

参考

• transcribe

Further reading

• “transliterate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “transliterate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.