Transliterate

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  transliterate
       v : rewrite in a different script; "The Sanskrit text had to be
           transliterated" [syn: {transcribe}]