Thibetan
Thibetan is the archaic form of Tibetan.
Meaning of Tibetan
Adjective
Tibetan (not comparable)
- Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.
- A fantastic legend was told about the first Gyalwai Odzer. This legend, believed to be authentic, had no fixed origin in time because the nomads of the region, the Tibetan province Tsinghai, could not, not even vaguely, indicate a date. The legend, however, was clear enough, so well known that it...1982, Alexandra David-Neel, Aphur Yongden, translated by Janwillem van de Wetering, The Power of Nothingness, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 2
Forms of Thibetan
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more Thibetan |
| superlative | most Thibetan |
| Noun | |
| plural | Thibetans |
Origin of Thibetan
From Thibet + -an.
Questions about Thibetan
- What is Thibetan the archaic form of?
- Thibetan is the archaic form of Tibetan.
Words near Thibetan in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Thibetan (page history and authors); Tibetan (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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