Etymology

Zangnan

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Today it means: South Tibet (a region including parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China and Arunachal Pradesh in India). Full definition →

Mandarin 藏南
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The story

  1. Mandarin · borrowed from藏南“South Tibet”
  2. English todayZangnan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 藏南 (Zàngnán, “South Tibet”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.