Submitted Place Name Revision History

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4/11/2025, 9:48 PM sekejap
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9/12/2021, 5:32 PM HL
10/5/2020, 11:21 AM HL
10/5/2020, 11:21 AM HL
9/15/2020, 1:18 PM HL

Name Lhasa
Type Settlement
Usage Tibetan, English
Scripts ལྷ་ས(Tibetan)
Pronounced Pron. /ɬɛː˥˥.sa˥˥/(Tibetan) /ˈlɑː.sə/(English)
Edit Status Status3. usages AND description are verified

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).
Added 9/15/2020 by HL