Definition of "transliterating" []

• Present participle of transliterate. (verb)

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• "Could be, but the book is pretty thoroughly proofread as was commonly the case in those bygone days of yore, and if she were straighforwardly transliterating the Japanese word she would presumably have used a k, not a c."
• "The transcriber hopes he did a tolerable job in transliterating the Greek words in the preface."
• "The reason that guesses should sometimes be necessary at all owes itself to the fact that transliterating from the Arabic writing often obscures the original words."