Lasa

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "lasa"

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin[1] 拉薩／拉萨 (Lāsà).

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Lasa

  1. Alternative form of Lhasa (capital city of Tibet): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • 1990 June 6 [1988 February], Amnesty International, “CHINA: DETENTIONWITHOUT TRIAL, ILL-TREATMENT OF DETAINEES AND POLICE SHOOTING OF CIVILIANS IN TIBET”, in Sino-American Relations: One Year After the Massacre at Tiananmen Square‎[2], United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, page 264:
      Several hundred people are reported to have been detained in Lasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in connection with three demonstrations and a riot in late September and early October 1987.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lhasa”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1048, column 3: “Chinese La-sa (läʹsäʹ)”

Anagrams[edit]

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

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Proper noun[edit]

Lasa f (Cyrillic spelling Ласа)

  1. Lhasa (the capital and largest city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
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