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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːsə

Proper noun

Lhasa

1. The capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • 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^[2], 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.

   • 2021 June 5, “Fast track to the throne”, in The Economist‎^[3], volume 439, number 9248, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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”.

   • 2021 July 23, “China: Xi visits Tibet for the first time as president”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[4], archived from the original on 23 July 2021, News‎^[5]:

     The most notable stop on the president's itinerary was the Lhasa, the Tibetan city that was once home of the Dalai Lama.
     Xi visited the public square in front of the Potala Palace, the traditional seat of the Dalai Lama's power. Tibet's religious leader has been living in exile since 1959 following a failed uprising against the Chinese rule. While in Lhasa, Xi visited a monastery and "inspected ethnic religion" and Tibetan cultural heritage protection, […]

   • 2022 September 30, “How China uses zero-Covid policy to crack down on Tibetans”, in France 24‎^[6], archived from the original on 30 September 2022‎^[7]:

     There has been a widespread outcry from the residents of Lhasa, the capital of the Chinese autonomous region of Tibet, about how local authorities are managing a Covid-19 lockdown, instated on August 9.

   • 2023 August 4, Jesus Centeno, “Tibet prays under the Chinese flag”, in EFE‎^[8], archived from the original on August 06, 2023‎^[9]:

     Prayers are a part of daily life in Tibet, and in counties such as Nyemo, on the outskirts of Lhasa, its inhabitants try to make a living by making incense to be used in temples.

   • 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 (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)
• Odia: ଲାସା (or) (lāsā)
• 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

Further reading

• Lhasa in Encyclopædia Britannica
• “Lhasa, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Lhasa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• 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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɦasa]

Proper noun

Lhasa f (related adjective lhaský)

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

Declension

Declension of Lhasa (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Lhasa
genitive	Lhasy
dative	Lhase
accusative	Lhasu
vocative	Lhaso
locative	Lhase
instrumental	Lhasou

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

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 Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʎa.zɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʎa.zɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʎa.za/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈla.zɐ/

Proper noun

Lhasa f

1. Alternative form of Lassa

Usage notes

The pronunciation with /ʎ/ is influenced by the spelling of lh.

Derived terms

• lhasa apso

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)