Lhotse
English
Etymology
From Tibetan ལྷོ་རྩེ (lho rtse).
Proper noun
Lhotse
- A Himalayan mountain on the border between Nepal and China, the fourth highest in the world.
- 1922, Howard-Bury, C. K., Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921, Longmans, Green and Co., OCLC 3767054, OL 326694M, page 116:
- Mount Everest was only 3 or 4 miles away from us. From it to the South-east swept a huge amphitheatre of mighty peaks culminating in a new and unsurveyed peak, 28,100 feet in height, to which we gave the name of Lhotse, which in Tibetan means the South Peak.
- 2017 April 30, Gopal Sharma, “Swiss climber falls to death, preparing for Mount Everest ascent”, in Sam Holmes, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 30 April 2017, World News:
- Steck was in the area acclimatizing ahead of a bid to climb Everest through the less-climbed West Ridge route and traverse to Lhotse, the world's fourth highest peak - at 8,516 meters (27,940 feet) in May.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lhotse.
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Translations
Himalayan mountain
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Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Lhotse”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, OCLC 802473294, page 1048, column 3
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lhotse”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1728, column 2
- Lhotse at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Holste, Holtes, Tholes, helots, hostel, hotels, hôtels, loseth, shotel, tholes