Meanings
- A county of Lhasa, Tibet autonomous region, China.
To strengthen late-stage crop-tending and make preparations for autumn farm work, the Lhasa municipal CCP and revolutionary committees recently held an on-the-spot meeting in Nimu County on crop-tending and the popularization of new farm tools.
[1973 July 23 [1973 July 16], “Lhasa Meeting on Agriculture”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 141, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Lhasa Tibet Regional Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 21 more example
According to Xinhua, the state-run news agency, the bus was carrying about 50 passengers on Saturday afternoon when it crashed into two vehicles on a mountainous highway and then fell 30 feet, landing on its roof, the local authorities said. The accident occurred in Nyemo County, about 60 miles from the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. The police have detained managers of the companies involved with the tour bus that crashed.
[2014 August 10, Dan Levin, “44 Dead in Tour Bus Crash in Tibet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014, Asia Pacific
Origin
- Tibetanསྙེ་མོ
- EnglishNyêmo
From Tibetan སྙེ་མོ (snye mo).
More words from Tibetan
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 尼木
- 尼木 (nei⁴ muk⁶)county
Chinese Mandarin 尼木
- 尼木 (Nímù)county
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