Where does “墨脫” come from?

墨脫 (Chinese) comes from Tibetan མེ་ཏོག, from Tibetan མེན་ཏོག.

Ancestry of “墨脫”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanམེ་ཏོགflower, blossom; smallpox
2Tibetanམེན་ཏོག—
Every word from Tibetan མེན་ཏོག →Every word from Tibetan མེ་ཏོག →
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