Transhimalaya

Transhimalaya proper noun: a mountain range on the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, parallel to the main Himalayan range.

Proper noun

Transhimalaya

A mountain range on the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, parallel to the main Himalayan range.
- Ever upward! We ascended a new mighty chain of mountains. At Camp Number 115 we were 16,840 feet above sea level. This mountain system traverses Tibet from the west to the east and is parallel with Himalaya. I have named it Transhimalaya and it was my aim to ride across this chain at several points...1934, Sven Hedin, A Conquest of Tibet, New York: National Travel Club, →OCLC, pages 239–240
- To the N we find the wide, complicated «basin» of Tethyan sediments, between the northern Bhutan antiform of the crystalline thrust sheet and the con- spicuous Suture Zone along the Tsangpo river. The latter is bordered to the N by the granitoids of the Transhimalaya (Kangdese belt of the Chinese...1983, Augusto Gansser, Geology of the Bhutan Himalaya, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165

Beyond the nearest branches of Transhimalaya an enormous abyss opened in the earth.1934, Sven Hedin, A Conquest of Tibet, New York: National Travel Club, →OCLC, pages 239–240:
The latter is bordered to the N by the granitoids of the Transhimalaya (Kangdese belt of the Chinese authors).1983, Augusto Gansser, Geology of the Bhutan Himalaya, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165:
This valley follows the famous Indus-Yarlung suture zone, with the granite of the Transhimalayas visible to the north.[1987, Blanche Christine Olschak, Himalayas: Growing Mountains, Living Myths, Migrating Peoples, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL...
Across the Transhimalaya, wherever villagers discard carcasses and military camps dispose of their excess food, dog numbers are on the increase.2021 May 29, Janaki Lenin, “Tales from the Transhimalaya”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 29 May 2021:

From trans- + Himalaya.

What does Transhimalaya mean?: Transhimalaya means a mountain range on the southern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, parallel to the main Himalayan range.
How do you use Transhimalaya in a sentence?: Beyond the nearest branches of Transhimalaya an enormous abyss opened in the earth.
What part of speech is Transhimalaya?: Transhimalaya is a proper noun.

Adapted from Wiktionary: Transhimalaya (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Cite this entry: “Transhimalaya.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/transhimalaya. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.