Lassa

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See also: lassa, lássa, lassà, and lassâ

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Lassa

  1. Archaic form of Lhasa.
  2. Acronym of Latin American Society of South Australia.
  3. A town in Borno state, Nigeria.
    • 2013, Arin Bhattacharya, A Review on Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, page 8:
      It was first described in the town of Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.
    • 2017, Carl Hoffmann, A Grammar of the Margi Language:
      Luka. The Gospel According to St. Luke in Margi. Prepared by The Church of the Brethren Mission. Lassa, Nigeria.
    • 2010, Stephen Berger, Lassa fever:
      Lassa fever was first described in an American nurse working at Lassa, Nigeria.
  4. A city in the Kara Region of Togo
    • 1964, Thomas John Larson, A Preliminary Survey of the Cabrai of Lama-Kara Circonscription, Togo, page 65:
      Other Catholic elemntary schools are at Lassa and a few other places .
    • 1972, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa - Issues 1196-1203, page 62:
      At Lassa, the president witnessed the unanimous selection of Chief Adre Walla who replaces the deceased Asoumaro Walla
    • 2009, Anne Rooney, The Story of Medicine:
      Here to help? Two witch doctors in Lassa, Togo

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Lassa f

  1. Lhasa (the capital city of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China)
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