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Bottan

Bottan is the obsolete form 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 Bottan

What is Bottan the obsolete form of?
Bottan is the obsolete form of Bhutan.

Words near Bottan in the dictionary

  1. bott hammer
  2. bott hammers
  3. bott-hammer
  4. bottability
  5. bottable
  6. Bottan
  7. bottarga
  8. bottargas
  9. Bottari
  10. Bottaris
  11. Bottcher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bottan (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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