English
Lhasa
Lhasa comes from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, and goes back to Old Tibetan ར་ས.
- Old Tibetanmodernར་སra sa
- Tibetanmodernལྷ་སlha sa
- Englishearliest quotation 1905Lhasa
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Tibetanmodernར་སra sa
- Tibetanmodernལྷ་སlha sa
- Englishearliest quotation 1905Lhasa
Earliest quotation: 1905, Perceval Landon, New York: Doubleday: “The earliest historical relic of the Tibetans—like that of…”
Every English word from Old Tibetan ར་ས
Today it means
name The capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Tibetan ར་ས / Lhasa