Transliteration

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of transliterating; the rendering of a letter or letters of one alphabet by equivalents in another.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act or product of transliterating, or of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.
  • noun. The act or product of rendering speech in sign language, or vice versa.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a transcription from one alphabet to another
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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."
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