Transliteration

3 definitions found

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

  Transliteration \Trans*lit`er*a"tion\, n.
     The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words
     of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  transliteration
       n : a transcription from one alphabet to another

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "transliteration":
     amplification, bilingual text, clavis, crib, decipherment,
     decoding, epigraph, faithful translation, free translation, gloss,
     glossary, initialing, inscription, interlinear,
     interlinear translation, key, lettering, loose translation,
     metaphrase, paraphrase, pony, restatement, rewording,
     transcription, translation, trot