Gê'gyai

English

Etymology

From Tibetan དགེ་རྒྱས (dge rgyas).

Proper noun

Gê'gyai

2. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
   • [1992 February, Robert Strauss, “Western Tibet & the Xinjiang Routes”, in Tibet: A Travel Survival Kit (Lonely Planet)‎^[1], 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 207, column 2:

     Continuing through Gêrzê, the route climbs round the foot of Mt Nganglong Kangri (6596 metres), and passes Gêgyai, a town divided into two halves separated by about two km.]

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Geji

Translations

county; town

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 革吉 (gaak³ gat¹)

  Mandarin: 革吉 (zh) (Géjí)

• Japanese: ゲギェ県 (Gegye-ken)
• Tibetan: དགེ་རྒྱས (dge rgyas)