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Where does “दार्जिलिङ” come from?

दार्जिलिङ (Nepali) comes from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང, from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ, from Tibetan རྡོ — stone, rock.

Ancestry of “दार्जिलिङ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tibetanརྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང—
2Tibetanརྡོ་རྗེdiamond, adamant; vajra; adamantine,...
3Tibetanརྡོstone, rock

Words derived from “दार्जिलिङ”

  • Darjeeling
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