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