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tibetan

Ti·bet·an
T t

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [ti-bet-n]
    • /tɪˈbɛt n/
    • /tɪˈbet.ən/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [ti-bet-n]
    • /tɪˈbɛt n/

Definitions of tibetan word

  • adjective tibetan of or relating to Tibet, its inhabitants, or their language. 1
  • noun tibetan a member of the people native to or inhabiting Tibet. 1
  • noun tibetan the Sino-Tibetan language of Tibet, especially in its standard literary form. 1
  • adjective tibetan of or from Tibet 1
  • noun tibetan person from Tibet 1
  • adjective tibetan Tibetan means belonging or relating to Tibet, or to its people, language, or culture. 0
See all 15 definitions of tibetan

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Origin of tibetan

First appearance:

before 1740
One of the 48% newest English words
First recorded in 1740-50; Tibet + -an

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Tibetan

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Tibetan

tibetan popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

tibetan usage trend in Literature

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    a family of languages including especially Burmese, Tibetan, and the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share literary Chinese as their standard language.

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