Tibetanise

English

Etymology

From Tibetan +‎ -ise.

Verb

Tibetanise (third-person singular simple present Tibetanises, present participle Tibetanising, simple past and past participle Tibetanised)

  1. British and Commonwealth standard spelling of Tibetanize.
    • 1981, Siddiq Wahid, Ladakh: Between Earth and Sky‎[1], Lausanne: Edita, →ISBN, page 17:
      Also, the tradition of sending novice monks to various monasteries in Central Tibet was initiated in the early fourteenth century and this served conclusively to Tibetanise Ladakh.
    • 1999, Tsering Shakya, The Dragon in the Land of Snows‎[2], London: Pimlico, →ISBN, page 390:
      However, the Chinese found that there were real difficulties in Tibetanising the bureaucracy.
    • 2021, Ed Douglas, Himalaya: A Human History‎[3], page 391:
      Eric Bailey, known as 'Hatter' to his friends, had little time for Charles Bell's method of 'Tibetanising' himself to advance British interests.
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