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Lhasa
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Lhâsâ
English
Alternative forms
en Lh'asa
Etymology
From en bo ལྷ་ས, from en otb ར་ས.
Pronunciation
en /ˈlɑːsə/
lä′sə lǎ′səLhasa 1048 3 Lhasa (lä′su̇, lǎ′su̇), Chinese La-sa (lä′sä′),Lha·sa or La-sa 416 1 Lha·sa or La-sa (lä′sə, -sä, lǎs′ə),
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lhasa.wav Southern England
en ɑːsə 2
Proper noun
en capital city ar:Suf/Tibet c/China.
en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39124/mode 1905 The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the Progress of the Mission Sent There by the English Government in the Year 1903-4 Perceval Landon Doubleday, Page & Co. New York 3 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.39124/page/n25/mode/ The earliest historical relic of the Tibetans—like that of many, perhaps of most, other races—is a weather-beaten stone, the Do-ring. It stands in the center of Lhasa, across the courtyard in front of the western doors of the Cathedral or Jokang, beneath the famous willow-tree.
en June 5, 2021 Fast track to the throne w:The Economist https://archive.org/details/the-economist-magazine-11th-june-2021/ 439 9248 0013-0613 1105186639 36 https://archive.org/details/the-economist-magazine-11th-june-2021/page/36/ The 37bn-yuan ($5.7bn) track extends from the region’s capital Lhasa eastward to the city of Nyingchi, which is Tibetan for “Throne of the Sun”.
en 7/23/2021 China: Xi visits Tibet for the first time as president https://web.archive.org/web/20210723065305/https://www.dw.com/en/china-xi-visits-tibet-for-the-first-time-as-president/a-58605600 23 July 2021 https://www.dw.com/en/china-xi-visits-tibet-for-the-first-time-as-president/a-58605600 w:Deutsche Welle News The most notable stop on the president's itinerary was the Lhasa, the Tibetan city that was once home of the Dalai Lama.Xi visited the public square in front of the Potala Palace, the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama's power. Tibet's religious leader has been living in exile since 1959 following a failed uprising against the Chinese rule. While in Lhasa, Xi visited a monastery and "inspected ethnic religion" and Tibetan cultural heritage protection,
en 09/30/2022 How China uses zero-Covid policy to crack down on Tibetans https://web.archive.org/web/20220930180747/https://observers.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220930-tibet-china-zero-covid-quarantine-centres-pigsty 30 September 2022 w:France 24 There has been a widespread outcry from the residents of Lhasa, the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet, about how local authorities are managing a Covid-19 lockdown, instated on August 9.
en 4 August 2023 Jesus Centeno Tibet prays under the Chinese flag w:EFE https://web.archive.org/web/20230806071612/https://efe.com/en/other-news/2023-08-04/tibet-prays-under-the-chinese-flag/ August 06, 2023 https://efe.com/en/other-news/2023-08-04/tibet-prays-under-the-chinese-flag/ Prayers are a part of daily life in Tibet, and in counties such as Nyemo, on the outskirts of Lhasa, its inhabitants try to make a living by making incense to be used in temples.
en
Synonyms
from Mandarin Chinese en Lasa, en La-sa
Translations
Capital of Tibet
Arabic: ar لَاسَا f
Belarusian: be Лхаса f
Buryat: bua Һаса
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 拉薩 laai1 saat3
Mandarin: cmn 拉薩 Lāsà
Czech: cs Lhasa f
Dzongkha: dz
Esperanto: eo Lasao
Finnish: fi Lhasa
French: fr Lhassa
Georgian: ka ლჰასა
German: de Lhasa
Greek: el Λάσα
Hindi: hi ल्हासा f
Hungarian: hu Lhásza
Irish: ga Lása m
Japanese: ja ラサ Rasa
Kashmiri: ks
Korean: ko ^라싸
Manchu: mnc ᠯᠠᠰᠠ
Marathi: mr ल्हासा
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Лхас
Mongolian script: mn ᡀᠠᠰᠠ
Nepali: ne लासा
Odia: or ଲାସା
Polish: pl Lhasa f
Portuguese: pt Lassa
Russian: ru Лха́са f, ru Ла́са f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ласа f
Latin: sh Lasa f
Slovak: sk Lhasa f
Spanish: es Lhasa
Thai: th ลาซา laasaa
Tibetan: bo ལྷ་ས
Tuvan: tyv Лхас, tyv Лхаса
Urdu: ur
Uyghur: ug لخاسا
Vietnamese: vi Lhasa
Zhuang: za Lahsaz
References
Further reading
Lhasa in Encyclopædia Britannica
pn
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)
Anagrams
en aahls Lasha Sahla Salah halas salah shala
Czech
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f lhaský
cs capital city ar:Suf/Tibet c/China Lhasa
Declension
f.sg
German
de:
Pronunciation
de De-Lhasa.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
toponym
de capital city ar:Suf/Tibet c/China Lhasa
Further reading
Lhasa
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :bor bo:ལྷ་ས<ety:uder<otb:ར་ས>> 2 1
Pronunciation
lasa LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-Lhasa.wav Lha.sa
Proper noun
f
pl capital city ar:Suf/Tibet c/China Lhasa
Declension
s
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
pt en Lhasa or pt bo ལྷ་ས 1.
Pronunciation
+ Lasa
Proper noun
f
pt Lassa
Usage notes
The pronunciation with /ʎ/ is influenced by the spelling of lh.
Derived terms
pt lhasa apso
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
es capital city ar:Suf/Tibet c/China Lhasa