transliteration

English

Etymology

From trans- +‎ literation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɹænzlɪtəˈɹeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

transliteration (countable and uncountable, plural transliterations)

1. (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.

2. (sign language) The act or product of rendering speech in sign language, or vice versa.

Derived terms

• back-transliteration

Related terms

• transliterate
• transliterator

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

• transcription
• Romanization
• pronunciation spelling / pronunciation respelling
• Transliteration and romanization