The story
- Tibetan · derived fromརྡོ་རྗེ“vajra”
- Tibetan · derived fromརྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང
- Nepali · borrowed fromदार्जिलिङ
- English todayDarjeeling
Borrowed from Nepali दार्जिलिङ (dārjiliṅ), from Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང (rdo rje gling), itself a compound of Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (rdo rje, “vajra”) and གླིང (gling, “land”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.