Lasa
See also: lasa, lăsa, Lāsà, läsa, låsa, and laša
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin[1] 拉薩／拉萨 (Lāsà).
Pronunciation
- enPR: läʹsäʹ[1]
Proper noun
Lasa
- Alternative form of Lhasa (capital city of Tibet): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- 1990 June 6 [February 1988], 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, 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.
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References
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lhasa”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, page 1048, column 3: “Chinese La-sa (läʹsäʹ)”
Anagrams
- AALS, ALSA, Alas., LAAS, aals, alas, sala
Serbo-Croatian
Proper noun
Lasa f (Cyrillic spelling Ласа)
- Lhasa (the capital and largest city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China)