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Scripts ལྷ་ས(Tibetan)
Meaning & History
Means "place of gods" from Tibetan ལྷ (lha) meaning "god, deity" and ས (sa) meaning "place, location, land". The name may have originally been ར་ས (ra-sa) meaning "place of goats" in Old Tibetan, which evolved into ལྷ་ས (lha-sa) over time. This is the name of a city in Tibet (formally in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China).