Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transliterate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transliterate \Trans*lit"er*ate\, v. t. [Pref. trans- + L.
litera, littera letter.]
To express or represent in the characters of another
alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of
English letters. --A. J. Ellis.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
transliterate
v : rewrite in a different script;"The Sanskrit text had to be
transliterated" [syn: {transcribe}]
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