Words similar to transliterated
Example sentences for: transliterated
How can you use “transliterated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Then another variant in transliteration is -ov/-off, -ev/-eff . The name ending in double f for what in Russian is invariably v is seldom seen nowadays; but a few decades ago or in documents or books written then you might have seen the two Soviet leaders' names transliterated Gorbacheff or Gorbachoff
The entry for the Russian word in the Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (Moscow, 1935), reads as follows, as transliterated and translated:
In the Romanization system I learned (and a pox on Peiking/Beijing for replacing the clear with the opaque) the two characters are transliterated as mei-kuo , disregarding the tonal diacritical marks.
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.
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.