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Tibetan

Syllables: Ti·bet·an/tɪˈbɛtən/

Tibetan adjective: pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.

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
    • After many years, Buddhism touched every aspect of Tibetan life, including how to treat the earth and plants and animals.2003, Patricia Kummer, Tibet, Children's Press, →ISBN, page 10

Noun

Tibetan (countable and uncountable, plural Tibetans)

  1. (countable) A native of Tibet
  2. (uncountable) A language of Tibet

Tibetan meaning in Hindi, Punjabi, Nepali and Arabic

Tibetan in Hindi

a person
तिब्बती tibbatī
a language
तिब्बती tibbatī

Tibetan in Punjabi

of or pertaining to Tibet
ਤਿੱਬਤੀ tibbatī

Tibetan in Nepali

of or pertaining to the Tibetan language
तिब्बती tibbatī

Tibetan in Arabic

a language
تِبِتِيَّة tibitiyya
More languagesFewer languages
Kashmiri
بۄٹہٕ bọṭụ, تِبٔتی tibạtī
Dzongkha
བོད་སྐད bod skad

Forms of Tibetan

pluralTibetans

Origin of Tibetan

From Tibet + -an.

Words formed from Tibetan

Phrases with Tibetan

Questions about Tibetan

What does Tibetan mean?
Tibetan means pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.
What is Tibetan in Hindi?
Tibetan in Hindi is तिब्बती (tibbatī). See Tibetan meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Tibetan?
Tibetan can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce Tibetan?
Tibetan is pronounced /tɪˈbɛtən/.

Words near Tibetan in the dictionary

  1. Tiberius
  2. Tibesti Mountains
  3. tibet
  4. Tibet Autonomous Region
  5. Tibet Plateau
  6. Tibetan
  7. Tibetan antelope
  8. Tibetan antelopes
  9. Tibetan Autonomous Region
  10. Tibetan Buddhism
  11. Tibetan Buddhist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: 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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