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Ritu

Syllables: Ri·tu

Ritu proper noun: synonym of Rutog; a place in Tibet, China: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.

Proper noun (1)

Ritu

  1. Synonym of Rutog; a place in Tibet, China: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • Among the 343 counties, 143 have per capita income above 200 yuan, 22 above 300, and 5 above 400. The highest is recorded in the Tibetan region whose Ritu county has scored 488.47 yuan.1984, John Yin, “Health and Human Services”, in Government of Socialist China, University Press of America, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 422
    • At Duoma, in Ritu County, the early Early Permian Qudi formation contains coldwater fossils including Oriocrassaella intermedia lamel libranchs.1990 May, Xia Bin, “Terranes of Xizang (Tibet), China”, in Thomas J. Wiley, David G. Howell, Florence L. Wong, editors, Terrane Analysis of China and the Pacific Rim, volume 13, Houston, Texas...
    Synonyms:
    Rutog

Proper noun (2)

Ritu (plural Ritus)

  1. (South-Asia) A female given name.

Synonyms of Ritu

Forms of Ritu

alternative formJih-t'u
pluralRitus

Origin of Ritu

c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 日土 (Rìtǔ).

Borrowed from Sanskrit ऋतु (ṛtu).

Questions about Ritu

What does Ritu mean?
Ritu means synonym of Rutog; a place in Tibet, China: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
What part of speech is Ritu?
Ritu is a proper noun.

Words near Ritu in the dictionary

  1. rittmaster
  2. rittmasters
  3. rittock
  4. rittocks
  5. ritts
  6. Ritu
  7. ritual
  8. ritual abuse
  9. ritual abuses
  10. Ritual Decalogue
  11. ritual magic

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