Darjeeling

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/dɑ(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒiːlɪŋ/

proper noun

A city and municipality in northern West Bengal; the headquarters of Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India.

OriginNepali दार्जिलिङ ← Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A city and municipality in northern West Bengal; the headquarters of Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India.
  2. A district of West Bengal, India.
nounDarjeeling (countable and uncountable, plural Darjeelings)

plural Darjeelings

  1. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Darjeeling tea (“tea from or similar to that from Darjeeling, India”).

Origin

  1. Tibetanརྡོ་རྗེ“vajra”
  2. Tibetanརྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང
  3. Nepaliदार्जिलिङ
  4. EnglishDarjeeling

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”).

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Translations

Bengali দার্জিলিং
  • দার্জিলিং (darjiliṅ)city name
Hindi दार्जिलिंग
  • दार्जिलिंग (dārjiliṅg)city name
Tamil டார்ஜிலிங்
  • டார்ஜிலிங் (ṭārjiliṅ)city name
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APA

Darjeeling. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Darjeeling

MLA

“Darjeeling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Darjeeling. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Darjeeling,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Darjeeling.

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