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Bootan

Bootan is the obsolete spelling of Bhutan.

Meaning of Bhutan

Proper noun

Bhutan

  1. A country in South Asia, in the Himalayas. Official name: Kingdom of Bhutan. Capital: Thimphu.
    • INDIA BEYOND THE GANGES, is a country bounded by Thibet and Boutan on the north ; by China, Tonquin, and Cochin China on the eaſt ; by the Indian Ocean on the ſouth ; and by the hither India , the bay of Bengal, and the Straits of Malacca on the weſt:[…][1763, “India Beyond the Ganges”, in A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences […] , volume II, London: W. Owen, →OCLC, page 1756, column 2

Questions about Bootan

What is Bootan the obsolete spelling of?
Bootan is the obsolete spelling of Bhutan.

Words near Bootan in the dictionary

  1. boot-tree
  2. boot-trees
  3. bootability
  4. bootable
  5. bootables
  6. Bootan
  7. Bootawa
  8. bootay
  9. bootays
  10. bootblack
  11. bootblacked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bootan (page history and authors); Bhutan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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