Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yarlung zangbo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: yarlung zang-bo
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Example Sentences

"The Western traveler is usually permitted only in Lhasa, Gyangze and Xigaze, which form a slender, 200-mile-long triangle across the valley of the Yarlung Zangbo (whose water dives into Bangladesh and, as the Brahmaputra, flows into the Bay of Bengal) and its longest tributary, the Lhasa River."
"Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Tibet's capital Lhasa, the Yarlung Zangbo (Brahmaputra) river and the cities of Nyingchi and Shannan between Jul. 25-27, official news agency Xinhua reported."
"India's foreign ministry said on Friday that New Delhi has conveyed its concerns to Beijing about China's plan to build a hydropower dam in Tibet on the Yarlung Zangbo river which flows into India."

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).

Word Breakdown

Root: ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ

Inflected Forms

Yarlung Tsangpo (alternative)

Questions

What does yarlung zangbo mean?: The upper stream of the Brahmaputra River located in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Where does yarlung zangbo come from?: Borrowed from Tibetan ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ (yar klungs gtsang po).

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