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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
transliterate .
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Their word transliterates stade, and we get our word stadium from it.
WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR? VINCE STATEN 2003
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Dear Alexander (or Aleksandr, as I believe your name transliterates into Russian):
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Dear Alexander (or Aleksandr, as I believe your name transliterates into Russian):
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Dear Alexander (or Aleksandr, as I believe your name transliterates into Russian):
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How curiously Mr. Nabokov "transliterates" my words can be seen from what I actually wrote: "the name originally meant 'archers' and was not at all close to 'sharpshooters"'(NYR, November 24).
Cranberry Jello Tarassuk, Leonid 1978
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For instance, Germanic languages ask questions like Sprechen Sie Deutsch?, which transliterates to Speak you German?, whereas English asks questions like Do you speak German?, with a meaningless do tossed in for good measure.
Book Review: “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue” « Motivated Grammar 2010
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For example, typing "hamesha" in Google Hindi IME transliterates into Hindi as: हमेशा.
Helping you read and write foreign scripts with Google Transliteration and Script Converter 2010
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In French, the term for window-shopping is lèche vitrine, which transliterates as lick window hence the suitably sensuous track by Aphex Twin called “Windowlicker” and has a wonderful salaciousness, evoking the shop-front smudges of classic shopping.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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In French, the term for window-shopping is lèche vitrine, which transliterates as lick window hence the suitably sensuous track by Aphex Twin called “Windowlicker” and has a wonderful salaciousness, evoking the shop-front smudges of classic shopping.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010
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For example, typing "hamesha" transliterates into Hindi as: , typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as: and typing "spasibo" transliterates into Russian as .
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