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Where does “拉薩” come from?
拉薩 (Chinese) comes from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.
Ancestry of “拉薩”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Tibetan
ལྷ་ས
Lhasa
2
Old Tibetan
ར་ས
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Words derived from “拉薩”
lazy
lazily
lax
laziness
laxness
lox
laze
laxly
lazybones
gravlax
laxed
laxism
laxist
gravadlax
laxen
unlazy
lazyback
overlax
nonlazy
lahsaz
leax
lax
lahs
lahs
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