Lasa

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Lasa¹

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 拉薩/拉萨 (Lāsà).

proper noun La-sa

  1. Synonym of Lhasa (capital city of Tibet): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name. The head of the Buddhist religion for the Mongols is Dalai Lama who dwells in Lasa, Tibet. They believe that whatever comes from Tibet is holy and the Tibetan priests take full advantage of this faith of the Mongol people to enrich themselves. The Mongols in great caravans make pilgrimages to this h

    Similar: Lhasa

LASA²

noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of look alike sound alike (referring to pharmaceuticals that are visually similar in physical appearance or packaging and similar in their names, orthographies, or phonetics).

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@misc{lasa_2026,
  title = {Lasa},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lasa},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}