transliterated love

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  • adjective Represented in the characters of another alphabet
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of transliterate.

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Examples

  • Also watch lists could have a names in the “transliterated from a non Roman alphabet” sub data base with common alternate transliterations and yellow flags if one matches one of those.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Spelling Problem 2010

  • I suppose it was transliterated from the English, but I wonder where the actual characters come from since “ping” and “pang” both kinda look almost the same. . . they must be “place holders” for sounds only.

    Ping-ponging in China? Heed this language lesson. - 22 Words 2008

  • Actually it's not really May Day, but M'aidez in French transliterated May Day as the internationally recognized distress call at time of imminent disaster.

    Inaugural Address 1993

  • [Transcriber's note: The word _zoe_ in the above paragraph was transliterated from the Greek letters zeta, omega, eta.]

    Letters to His Friends Forbes Robinson

  • Plenty in Every Man's Pocket_, etc. [Transcriber's Note: The word "Ogge" was transliterated from the Greek characters Omicron, gamma, gamma, eta.]

    Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

  • [Transcriber's Note: The following has been transliterated from the Greek]

    A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

  • She was tasting them to figure it out when Caitlyn came up and read the Korean characters that actual transliterated the English word.

    inJesus :: Online Community :: Last posted message 2009

  • (Having indulged my big pretentious self yesterday by citing Aristotle in transliterated Greek – tho’ I did remove the Greek characters because that was just freaky and hard to look at – I will refrain from rambling into a digression on Nietzsche and ressentiment here.

    Mêtêr Politikon – Part II | Her Bad Mother 2006

  • Chalkourgos "were transliterated from the Greek as follows:

    Sagittulae, Random Verses Edward Woodley Bowling

  • This sense of the sound as “lo and behold” was taken up in the 1611 King James Bible thrice in Ezekiel, transliterated from the Hebrew heach, later translated by some as indicating “malicious joy.”

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

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