Lhasa apso
Lhasa apso · Lhasa apsos
Лхасский апсо
A particular breed of dog, Tibetan in originA particular breed of dog, Tibetan in origin.
US/ˈlɑːsə ˈæpsoʊ/
Meaning
1 sensesA particular breed of dog, Tibetan in origin.
Лхасский апсоLxasskij apso
More definitions
- a breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs
Translations
3 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
dog:
Origin
From Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + Tibetan ཨོག་ཚོམ (og tshom) / ཨག་ཚོམ (ag tshom, “goatee, chin-From Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + Tibetan ཨོག་ཚོམ (og tshom) / ཨག་ཚོམ (ag tshom, “goatee, chin-beard”). Alternatively, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + ར་ཕོ (ra pho, “billy goat”) OR from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + འབ་ ('ab, “to bark”) + སོ་ (so, “guard, watchman”).
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Forms
plural: Lhasa apsos| Singular | Lhasa apso |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- a breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs:Lhasa