yarlung tsangpo
/ˈjɑː(ɹ)lʊŋ ˈtsæŋpəʊ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.84 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Example Sentences
- "The Himalaya guards the southern rim of the plateau in one continuous sweep of 2250 km, each end marked by a massive mountain, Nanga Parbat on the Indus in the west and Namjagbarwa at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in the east."
- "A forty-minute drive through the Yarlung Tsangpo River valley took the team from the airport to the city of Lhasa."
- "In October, China began operating the giant Zangmu Dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, upsetting India and Bangladesh because the river is an important waterway in their countries."
- "In November of last year, China’s state-owned media shared plans for a 60-gigawatt mega-dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR).[...]The Yarlung Tsangpo is of particular significance, as it represents the body of the goddess Dorje Phagmo, one of the highest incarnations in Tibetan culture."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ
Inflected Forms
Yarlung Tsangbo (canonical)
Yarlung Zangbo (alternative)