Qomolangma Feng

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Mandarin 珠穆朗瑪峰／珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng); created by combining Qomolangma (“Tibetan Pinyin spelling of Tibetan ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (jo mo glang ma)”) and Mandarin 峰 (Fēng, “mountain, summit”).

Proper noun

Qomolangma Feng

1. (chiefly China) Mount Qomolangma; Mount Everest
   • 1975 May 29, Xinhua News Agency‎^[1]:

     A series of four pictures showing Chinese male and female climbers scaling the Qomolangma Feng--the highest peak in the world--is featured in the PEOPLE'S DAILY and all other Peking papers today.

   • 1999, Shi Zhaochun, A Guide to Mountaineering in China‎^[2], page 21:

     Not only is Qomolangma Feng towering and grand, but very powerful.

   • 2006, Junyong Chen, Janli Yuan, Chunxi Guo, Yanping Zhang, Peng Zhang, “Progress in technology for the 2005 height determination of Qomolangma Feng (Mt. Everest)”, in Science China Earth Sciences‎^[3]:

     In 2005 China carried out a new geodetic campaign for the height determination of Qomolangma Feng—Mt. Everest (QF in short).