Lhasa apso

English

A Lhasa apso

Etymology

From Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + Tibetan ཨོག་ཚོམ (og tshom) / ཨག་ཚོམ (ag tshom, “goatee, chin-beard”). Alternatively, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + ར་ཕོ (ra pho, “billy goat”) OR from Tibetan ལྷ་ས (lha sa) + འབ་ ('ab, “to bark”) + སོ་ (so, “guard, watchman”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːsə ˈæpsoʊ/

Noun

Lhasa apso (plural Lhasa apsos)

1. A particular breed of dog, Tibetan in origin.

Translations

dog

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 拉薩犬 / 拉萨犬 (laai¹ saat³ hyun²)

  Mandarin: 拉薩犬 / 拉萨犬 (lāsàquǎn)

• Estonian: lhasa apso
• Finnish: lhasa apso, apso
• French: Lhassa apso (fr)
• Japanese: ラサ・アプソ (rasa-apuso)
• Portuguese: lhasa apso
• Russian: Лхасский апсо m (Lxasskij apso)
• Swedish: lhasa apso (sv)

Further reading

• Lhasa apso on Wikipedia.Wikipedia