Tibet

See also Tíbet

English

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Definition 1&2.

Definition 3.

Alternative forms

• Thibet

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĭ-bĕt', tə-bĕt', IPA: /tɪˈbet/, /təˈbet/, SAMPA: /tI"bet/, /t@"bet/

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Proper noun

Tibet

1. A plateau region in Central Asia, where the Tibetan people traditionally live, encompassing what is now Tibet Autonomous Region (also called Xizang), most of Qinghai, the western half of Sichuan, a small part of Yunnan and a small part of Gansu in the Peoples Republic of China, and also the country of Bhutan, and the Indian regions of Sikkim and Ladakh.
2. An independent kingdom that formerly existed in Central Asia where the Tibet Autonomous Region now is.
3. A common shorthand name for Tibet Autonomous Region, previously mostly coterminous with the independent portion of Tibet until 1950.

Usage notes

In Tibetan, བོད (Bod) properly refers to the entire plateau region that is translated to English as Tibet or Tibet Plateau, of which Tibet Autonomous Region (Hanzi: 西藏自治区, Pinyin: Xizang Zizhiqu) only forms one part. In international media, Tibet is often used as the shorthand name for Tibet Autonomous Region entity. In modern Chinese of the People's Republic of China, 西藏 Xizang refers to Tibet Autonomous Region (including P.R.C.-claimed Arunachal Pradesh in India), but is named after Tibetan དབུས་གཙང (Dbus-gtsang or Ü-Tsang), one of the traditional provinces of Tibet that includes the capital Lhasa. Today in the complex politics surrounding Tibet, the use of Tibet for the entire plateau can be offensive to Chinese people particularly in the People's Republic of China, while the use of Tibet exclusively for Tibet Autonomous Region can be offensive to Tibetan people. Additionally, when the term Tibet Plateau is used consistently instead of Tibet to refer to བོད (Bod), it can also be considered insensitive to Tibetan people.

Synonyms

• Xizang

Translations

region in Central Asia

Arabic: التبت (ar) (al-tibit) m. Armenian: Տիբեթ (hy) (Tibet') Bosnian: Tibet (bs) m. Breton: Tibet Catalan: Tibet m. Chinese: Mandarin: 西藏 (cmn) (Xīzàng), (historical) 土蕃 (cmn) (Tǔbō) Czech: Tibet (cs) m. Dutch: Tibet (nl) n. Finnish: Tiibet (fi) French: Tibet (fr) m. Georgian: ტიბეტი (ka) (tʼibetʼi) German: Tibet (de) n. Greek: Θιβέτ (el) (Thivét) n. Hebrew: טיבט (he) (tibet) Hindi: तिब्बत (hi) (tibbat), बोड (hi) (boḍ) Interlingua: Tibet Italian: Tibet (it) m. Japanese: チベット (ja) (Chibetto), 西蔵 (ja) (せいぞう, Seizō)

Korean: 티베트 (ko) (Tibeteu), 시짱 (ko) (Sijjang), 서장 (ko) (Seojang) (西藏 (ko)) Macedonian: Тибет (mk) (Tíbet) m. Manchu: tubet, tanggūt Mongolian: Төвд (mn) (Tövd) Nepali: तिब्बत (ne) (tibbat) Polish: Tybet (pl) m. Portuguese: Tibete (pt) m. Romanian: Tibet (ro) n. Russian: Тибет (ru) (Tibét) m., Сицзан (ru) (Siczán) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: Тибет m. Roman: Tibet m. Spanish: Tíbet m. Thai: ทิเบต (th) (tíbàyt) Tibetan: བོད (Bod) Vietnamese: Tây Tạng (vi) (西藏 (vi)) Volapük: Tibätän (vo)

shorthand for the Tibet Autonomous Region

Arabic: شيزانغ (ar) (shizaangh) m., التبت (ar) (al-tibit) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 西藏 (cmn) (Xīzàng) Czech: Tibet (cs) m. Finnish: Tiibet (fi) Hindi: बोड (hi) (boḍ) Japanese: 西蔵 (ja) (せいぞう, Seizō)

Korean: 시짱 (ko) (Sijjang), 서장 (ko) (Seojang) (西藏 (ko)) Mongolian: Төвд (mn) (Tövd) Nepali: please add this translation if you can Russian: Сицзан (ru) (Siczán) m., Тибет (ru) (Tibét) m. Thai: ทิเบต (th) (tíbàyt), ซีจ้าง (th) (seejâang) Tibetan: དབུས་གཙང་ (Dbus-gtsang) Vietnamese: Tây Tạng (vi) (西藏 (vi))

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Breton

Proper noun

Tibet

1. Tibet

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Catalan

Proper noun

Tibet m.

1. Tibet

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Czech

Proper noun

Tibet m.

1. Tibet

Derived terms

• Tibeťan
• tibetský

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Dutch

Proper noun

Tibet n.

1. Tibet

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French

Proper noun

Tibet m.

1. Tibet

Derived terms

• Tibétain/Tibétaine
• tibétain/tibétaine

Anagrams

• bitte

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Tibet

1. Tibet

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Romanian

Proper noun

Tibet n.

1. Tibet

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tǐbet/
• Hyphenation: Ti‧bet

Proper noun

Tìbet m. (Cyrillic spelling Тѝбет)

1. Tibet

Declension

    declension of Tibet

	singular
nominative	Tibet
genitive	Tibeta
dative	Tibetu
accusative	Tibet
vocative	Tibetu
locative	Tibetu
instrumental	Tibetem