Definition of "romanize" []

• Bring under the authority or influence of Rome. (verb)
• Make Roman or Roman Catholic in disposition. (verb)
• To put letters or words written in another writing system into the Latin (Roman) alphabet. (verb)

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• "If we really want to pacify the country we need to, "romanize" it."
• "A Turk, Azeri or Central Asian may romanize this as Faruk Ömer Abdülmütellep or Abdulmutallap, with or without diacritics, with or without the final p instead of b … And then there are possible South Asian spellings, Malaysian ones, and then there are misspellings of all of the above."
• "As you point out, Japanese can romanize their names in either order."