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nouna breed of terrier having a long heavy coat raised in Tibet as watchdogs
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Origin
- Tibetanལྷ་ས
- Tibetanཨོག་ཚོམ
- Tibetanལྷ་ས
- EnglishLhasa apso
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”).
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Chinese Cantonese 拉薩犬 /拉萨犬
- 拉薩犬 /拉萨犬 (laai¹ saat³ hyun²)dog
Chinese Mandarin 拉薩犬 /拉萨犬
- 拉薩犬 /拉萨犬 (lāsàquǎn)dog
Estonian lhasa apso
- lhasa apsodog
Finnish lhasa apso, apso
- lhasa apsodog
- apsodog
French Lhassa apso
- Lhassa apsodog
Japanese ラサ・アプソ
- ラサ・アプソ (rasa-apuso)dog
Portuguese lhasa apso
- lhasa apsodog
Russian Лхасский апсо
- Лхасский апсо (Lxasskij apso)dog
Swedish lhasa apso
- lhasa apsodog
Vietnamese Lhasa apso
- Lhasa apsodog
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Lhasa apso. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lhasa%20apso
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