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English
Etymology
From the Tibetan pinyin romanisation of གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ (gzhis ka rtse).
Proper noun
Xigazê
- Alternative form of Shigatse
, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-15, THOSE WE’VE LOST:Tenzin Dolkar, who later began using Tendol, a variation of her first name, was born in the central Tibetan town of Shigatse (also known as Xigaze) on Dec. 2, 1951, according to her Swiss passport.]
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xigaze”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3502, column 2: “Sometimes also appears as Rikeze, Zhigatse, Zhikatse, Jih-k’a-tse, or Shigatse.”
- “Xigazê”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.