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Thibetian

Thibetian is the archaic form of Tibetan.

Meaning of Tibetan

Adjective

Tibetan (not comparable)

  1. 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

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Forms of Thibetian

Adjective
comparativemore Thibetian
superlativemost Thibetian
Noun
pluralThibetians

Origin of Thibetian

From Thibet + -ian.

Questions about Thibetian

What is Thibetian the archaic form of?
Thibetian is the archaic form of Tibetan.

Words near Thibetian in the dictionary

  1. thibet
  2. Thibet cloth
  3. Thibet cloths
  4. Thibetan
  5. Thibetans
  6. Thibetian
  7. Thibetians
  8. thibets
  9. thibilant
  10. thibilants
  11. thible

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Thibetian (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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