transliterate

Verb

transliterate (third-person singular simple present transliterates, present participle transliterating, simple past and past participle transliterated)

1. (transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.
   • Everyone in Moscow uses the English term “face control,” though the phrase is often transliterated in print as “feis kontrol.”2009 September 25, Joshua Yaffa, “Barbarians at the Gate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2012
   • In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart.2017 July 20, Thu-Huong Ha, “Germany has ended a century-long debate over a missing letter in its alphabet”, in Quartz, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2019