> You can't compile the code of scripting languages

Of course you can. Compiling is a process that takes some code as input and produces other code as output. The output code doesn't have to be at a lower level of abstraction (like assembly or machine code).

A compiler that produces code at the same level on abstraction (eg. going from TypeScript to JavaScript, or newer JS to ES3 JS) is often called a "transpiler" but a transpiler is just a type of compiler, and it's totally valid to call it such.