Lhasa

Lhasa

See also: Lhâsâ

English

Alternative forms

• Lh'asa, Lasa, La-sa

Etymology

From Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa), from Old Tibetan ར་ས (ra sa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːsə/
• enPR: läʹsu̇, lǎʹsu̇[1]

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɑːsə

Proper noun

Lhasa

1. The capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • [1890 October, “The Literature of Tibet”, in Edinburgh Review‎, volume CCCLII, page 390:

     Tibetan literature is chiefly Buddhistic, but not wholly so. The capital of Tibet, Lhásá ('the seat of the gods'), is indeed the Rome of Buddhism, and in no other country does that religion attract higher patronage, and nowhere else is its philosophy more ardently studied. Nevertheless, the whole of the inhabitants are not Buddhists.]

   • 1905, Perceval Landon, 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, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 3:

     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.

   • 1983 October 10, “Crime Wave Sweeps Communist Mainland”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XXIV, number 40, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 3:

     A group of Western reporters visiting Lhasa early last August found widespread evidence of Tibetan dissent and hatred of the Communist Chinese, who invaded and conquered Tibet in 1951.

   • 1992, Nixon, Richard, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment‎, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, LCCN 91-37743, OCLC 440652941, page 180:

     The outrage over the brutal killings of peaceful demonstrators in Lhasa in March 1989 quickly faded after the massacres in Beijing in June. While there is a limit to what we can do, we should do more than we have done.

   • 2007 December 10, Hildegard Diemberger, When a Woman Becomes a Religious Dynasty: The Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet‎, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2007000291, OCLC 963516932, page 229:

     The Magnificent Lady said, “Without relying on means and wisdom together, no enlightment is possible, but if both means and wisdom come together, enlightment can be achieved.” She said that she wanted to continue the journey to Lhasa.

   • 2021 June 5, “Fast track to the throne”, in The Economist‎, volume 439, number 9248, ISSN 0013-0613, OCLC 1105186639, 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”.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lhasa.

Translations

Capital of Tibet

Arabic: لَاسَا‎ f (lāsā) Belarusian: Лхаса f (Lxasa) Buryat: Һаса (Hasa) Chinese: Cantonese: 拉薩／拉萨, 拉萨 (laai1 saat3) Mandarin: 拉薩／拉萨 (zh) (Lāsà) Czech: Lhasa (cs) f Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: Lasao Finnish: Lhasa French: Lhassa (fr) Georgian: ლჰასა (lhasa) German: Lhasa Greek: Λάσα (el) (Lása) Hindi: ल्हासा (hi) (lhāsā) Hungarian: Lhásza (hu) Irish: Lása m Japanese: ラサ (Rasa) Kashmiri: please add this translation if you can Korean: 라싸 (ko) (Rassa) Marathi: ल्हासा (lhāsā) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Лхас (Lxas) Mongolian: ᡀᠠᠰᠠ (lhasa) Nepali: लासा (lāsā) Oriya: ଲାସା (or) (lasa) Polish: Lhasa (pl) f Portuguese: Lassa Russian: Лха́са (ru) f (Lxása), Ла́са (ru) f (Lása) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Ласа f Roman: Lasa f Slovak: Lhasa f Spanish: Lhasa (es) Thai: ลาซา (laasaa) Tibetan: ལྷ་ས (lha sa) Urdu: please add this translation if you can Uyghur: لخاسا‎ (lxasa) Vietnamese: Lhasa Zhuang: Lahsaz

References

1. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lhasa”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, page 1048, column 3: “Lhasa (läʹsu̇, lǎʹsu̇)”

Further reading

• Lhasa in Encyclopædia Britannica
• “Lhasa, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Lhasa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo fen sheng dituji (Hanyu Pinyin ban) (Atlas of the People's Republic of China (Hanyu Pinyin edition)

Anagrams

• Lasha, Sahla, Salah, halas, salah, shala

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɦasa]

Proper noun

Lhasa f

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

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German

Proper noun

Lhasa n (proper noun, genitive Lhasas or (optionally with an article) Lhasa)

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

Further reading

• “Lhasa” in Duden online

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa), from Old Tibetan ར་ས (ra sa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.sa/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: Lha‧sa

Proper noun

Lhasa f

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

Declension

Declension of Lhasa

	singular
nominative	Lhasa
genitive	Lhasy
dative	Lhasie
accusative	Lhasę
instrumental	Lhasą
locative	Lhasie
vocative	Lhaso

Further reading

• Lhasa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Lhasa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Lhasa f

1. Alternative form of Lassa

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlasa/ [ˈla.sa]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: Lha‧sa

Proper noun

Lhasa ?

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