transliterate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb rewrite in a different script
    transcribe.
    • The Sanskrit text had to be transliterated

WordNet

Trans*lit"er*ate transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. trans- + L. litera, littera letter.
Definitions
  1. To express or represent in the characters of another alphabet; as, to transliterate Sanskrit words by means of English letters. A. J. Ellis.

Webster 1913