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dongbas

dongbas is the plural of dongba.

Meaning of dongba

Noun

dongba (plural dongba or dongbas)

  1. A priest of the Nakhi people.
    • By 1949 there were dongba practising only in the rural areas of Lijiang. We have no figure on the exact number, but according to interviews many Naxi villages had a dongba at that time, or would invite one from a neighbouring village. After the Communist take-over the dongba's activities were...1998, Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, David Strand, Reconstructing Twentieth-century China, →ISBN

Questions about dongbas

What is dongbas the plural of?
Dongbas is the plural of dongba.

Words near dongbas in the dictionary

  1. Dong'an
  2. donga
  3. dongas
  4. dongba
  5. Dongbao
  6. dongbas
  7. Dongbei
  8. Dongchang
  9. Dongcheng
  10. dongchimi
  11. Dongchong

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