ngawa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture in Sichuan, China.
Example Sentences
- "In the latest of dozens of deadly immolations to protest Chinese rule, a Tibetan women set herself ablaze and died on March 5 in Tibet’s Ngawa region, the International Campaign for Tibet said."
- "The Nhasangs themselves are from Ngaba, which is in the Amdo region of northeastern Tibetan, a cultural borderland where Tibetan and Sichuan traditions meet. China has decreed that Ngaba is within Sichuan Province."
Etymology
From Tibetan རྔ་བ་་ (rnga ba).
Word Breakdown
- Root: རྔ་བ་་