Meaning & History
A kingdom established in the 7th century, Tibet was invaded by China in 1950 and has since been known as the Xizang Autonomous Region of China.
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Type Region, Political Subdivision & Country
Usage English, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Turkish, Uzbek
Scripts Տիբեթ(Armenian) Тибет(Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Tajik) טיבט(Hebrew) ටිබෙට්(Sinhala)
Pronounced Pron. /tɪ.ˈbet/(English) /tə.ˈbet/(English) /ti.ˈbɛtʰ/(Eastern Armenian) /di.ˈpʰɛtʰ/(Western Armenian) /ˈtǐ.bet/(Croatian, Serbian) /ˈtɪ.bɛt/(Czech) /ti.bɛ/(French) /ˈtiː.bɛt/(German) /ˈti.bɛt/(Hungarian, Macedonian) /tʲɪ.ˈbʲet/(Russian) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
Meaning uncertain, perhaps derived from Tibetan སྟོད་བོད (stod-bod) meaning "Upper Tibet", itself from the autonym བོད (Bod). Alternately the name may be of Turkic origin, possibly from Old Turkic töbäd meaning "heights" or töpü meaning "peak, height, summit". This is the name of a region and plateau in Inner Asia. It was also the name of an independent state that existed between 1912 and 1951, as well as the name of a present-day autonomous region of China.
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