Darjeeling

//dɑ(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒiːlɪŋ// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Ellipsis of Darjeeling tea (“tea from or similar to that from Darjeeling, India”). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
  2. 2
    a fine variety of black tea grown in northern India wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town and municipality in northern West Bengal, India.
  2. 2
    A district of West Bengal, India.

Etymology

Borrowed from Nepali दार्जिलिङ (dārjiliṅ), from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང (rdo rje gling), itself a compound of Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (rdo rje, “vajra”) and གླིང (gling, “land”).

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