Tibetan

or Thi·bet·an

[ ti-bet-n ]

adjective
  1. of or relating to Tibet, its inhabitants, or their language.

noun
  1. a member of the people native to or inhabiting Tibet.

  2. the Sino-Tibetan language of Tibet, especially in its standard literary form.

Origin of Tibetan

1
First recorded in 1740–50; Tibet + -an

Words Nearby Tibetan

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How to use Tibetan in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for Tibetan

Tibetan

/ (tɪˈbɛtən) /


adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Tibet, its people, or their language

noun
  1. a native or inhabitant of Tibet

  2. the language of Tibet, belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family

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