Editing Lhasa Apso (section)

== Etymology ==
[[File:Lhasa apso portret.jpg|thumb|A Lhasa Apso head]]
[[File:Lhasa Apso 2.jpg|thumb|A young Lhasa Apso, not yet fully coated]]
[[File:Lhasa apso.jpg|thumb|A young Lhasa Apso]]
[[File:Lhasaapso.jpg|thumb|A Lhasa Apso with a long, dense coat]]
[[Lhasa]] is the capital city of Tibet, and ''apso'' is a word from the [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]] language. There is some debate over the exact origin of the name; some claim that the word "apso" is an anglicized form of the Tibetan word for goatee ("ag-tshom", ཨག་ཚོམ་) or perhaps "ra-pho" (ར་ཕོ་) meaning "billy goat".<ref name="lhasa_apsos"/> It may also be a compound noun meaning "bark-guard" (lit. "ap" [ཨཔ], to bark, and "so" [སོ་], to guard).<ref>[http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/%27ab_pa Definition of "ab-pa"], Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan Dictionary</ref><ref>[http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/so_ba Definition of "so-ba"], Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan Dictionary {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101050617/http://rywiki.tsadra.org/index.php/so_ba |date=2020-01-01 }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|certain=y|date=April 2021}}