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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

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanལྷ་སLhasa
2Old Tibetanར་ས—
Every word from Old Tibetan ར་ས →