The story
- Mandarin · derived from峰“mountain, summit”
- Tibetan · derived fromཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ
- English todayQomolangma Feng
Partial calque from Mandarin 珠穆朗瑪峰／珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng); created by combining Qomolangma (“Tibetan Pinyin spelling of Tibetan ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (jo mo glang ma)”) and Mandarin 峰 (Fēng, “mountain, summit”).
Words from the same roots
Tibetanཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ all →
ChomolungmaZhumulangma
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.