Chomolungma

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Mount Everest. uncommon

    "The lamas told many stories of the terror of the snows—of gods and demons and creatures far worse than yetis, who guarded the heights and would bring doom to any man who ventured there. But I knew that men, and among them my own people, had climbed high on the other side of Chomolungma, and, though some had been killed, more had returned alive."

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"Chomolungma is the tallest mountain in the world."

Etymology

From Tibetan ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (jo mo glang ma), from ཇོ་མོ (jo mo, “goddess”) + ?, translated as "Mother of the Universe" or "Goddess Mother of the Snows".

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