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Darjeeling

//dɑ(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒiːlɪŋ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town and municipality in northern West Bengal, India.
  2. 2
    A district of West Bengal, India.
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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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