Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Transliteration has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
a transcription from one alphabet to another
The act or product of transliterating, of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.
This word comes from combining Latin trans- meaning "across" with literation, referring to the act of writing letters. It originally described the process of converting text from one script into another while preserving the exact spelling of the original characters.