Darjeeling
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Darjeeling
- A town and municipality in West Bengal, India.
Noun[edit]
Darjeeling (countable and uncountable, plural Darjeelings)
- Short for Darjeeling tea: tea from or similar to that from Darjeeling, India.
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- English terms borrowed from Nepali
- English terms derived from Nepali
- English terms derived from Tibetan
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
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- en:Towns in West Bengal
- en:Towns in India
- en:Municipalities of India
- en:Places in West Bengal
- en:Places in India
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English short forms
- en:Tea