Definitions for Lhasa

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Lhasa Lha·sa

Spelling: [lah-suh, -sah, las-uh]

IPA: /ˈlɑ sə, -sɑ, ˈlæs ə/

Lhasa is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in Lhasa (aahls).

Definitions for Lhasa

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Tibet, in the SE part: sacred city of Lamaism. About 12,000 feet (3650 meters) above sea level.
2. Also, Thibet. Also called Sitsang, Xizang. Official name Tibet Autonomous Region. an administrative division of China, N of the Himalayas: prior to 1950 a theocracy under the Dalai Lama; the highest country in the world, average elevation about 16,000 feet (4877 meters). 471,660 sq. mi. (1,221,599 sq. km). Capital: Lhasa.
3. Plateau of. Also called Tibetan Highlands, Roof of the World. a vast plateau in S central Asia bounded by the Tarim and Qaidam basin deserts to the N and the Himalayan, Karakoram, and Pamir mountain ranges to the S and W: highest plateau in the world, averaging about 15,000 feet (4570 meters). 850,000 sq. mi. (2,200,000 sq. km).

Examples for Lhasa

We had a journey of eight days more to Lhasa, he assured us.

The great road to Lhasa along the Indus and to Gartok was closed to us.

Once, she called home all excited about her new Lhasa apso—a $500 dog!

From the western Tibetan town of Ngari, I was taken to Lhasa, where I was thrown into a detention camp.

Any cars coming from Lhasa are immediately stopped and searched," says one local, "What have we done to deserve this?

They quietly answered: “We have only to obey the orders of the Devashung in Lhasa.”

The Pontiffs of Lhasa and Urga know and possess her mystery.

And this was the frame of mind in which I rode out of Lhasa on our march homeward.

He had a ferocious temper, growing so angry at times his body shook as he stood on the shiny floor of his winter palace in Lhasa.

You is Eulopean missionary, very bad man; you want to go to Lhasa.