Where does “大吉嶺” come from?
大吉嶺 (Chinese) comes from English Darjeeling, from Nepali दार्जिलिङ, from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང, from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ, from Tibetan རྡོ — stone, rock.
Ancestry of “大吉嶺”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Darjeeling | Short for Darjeeling tea: tea from or similar to... |
| 2 | Nepali | दार्जिलिङ | Darjeeling |
| 3 | Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང | — |
| 4 | Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ | diamond, adamant; vajra; adamantine,... |
| 5 | Tibetan | རྡོ | stone, rock |