Lhotse
/ˈloʊt(ˈ)seɪ/
Lhotse proper noun: a Himalayan mountain on the border between Nepal and China, the fourth highest in the world.
Proper noun
Lhotse
- A Himalayan mountain on the border between Nepal and China, the fourth highest in the world.
- Mount Everest was only 3 or 4 miles away from us. From it to the South-east swept a huge amphitheatre of mighty peaks culminating in a new and unsurveyed peak, 28,100 feet in height, to which we gave the name of Lhotse, which in Tibetan means the South Peak.1922, C. K. Howard-Bury, Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 116
- These Swiss mountaineers, led by Albert Eggler (third from left), reported from Nepal last week that they had not only conquered Lhotse, at 28,100 feet the world's highest hitherto unclimbed peak, but twice climbed its 29,002-foot twin. Mount Everest, previously scaled only by Sir Edmund Hillary...1956 June 11, “Triple Play”, in Newsweek, volume XLVII, number 24, Weekly Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, International, page 58
Origin of Lhotse
Borrowed from Tibetan ལྷོ་རྩེ (lho rtse).
Questions about Lhotse
- What does Lhotse mean?
- Lhotse means a Himalayan mountain on the border between Nepal and China, the fourth highest in the world.
- What part of speech is Lhotse?
- Lhotse is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Lhotse?
- Lhotse is pronounced /ˈloʊt(ˈ)seɪ/.
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