Example sentences for: transliterated

How can you use “transliterated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The entry for the Russian word in the Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (Moscow, 1935), reads as follows, as transliterated and translated:

  • Declaim that line of transliterated Greek, and you can listen to Homer's cunning selection of words and genitive case capture the twanging release of Ulysses' silver bow.

  • The Chinese do not distinguish l from r in Western words or names, for example, so that these letters when transliterated may appear as either.

  • Exhaust, a word much loved in auto repair shops, has become EGGZOZZ and is so transliterated into Hebrew.

  • But since different individuals have different ideas about how the Devanagari and Arabic alphabets should be transliterated, in many cases there is no single “correct” way to spell a specific word and, instead, dictionaries offer several--sometimes as many as six--acceptable variant spellings.


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