Where does “દાર્જીલિંગ” come from?
દાર્જીલિંગ (Gujarati) comes from Bengali দার্জিলিং, from Nepali दार्जिलिङ, from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང, from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ, from Tibetan རྡོ — stone, rock.
Ancestry of “દાર્જીલિંગ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bengali | দার্জিলিং | — |
| 2 | Nepali | दार्जिलिङ | Darjeeling |
| 3 | Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང | — |
| 4 | Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ | diamond, adamant; vajra; adamantine,... |
| 5 | Tibetan | རྡོ | stone, rock |