"Darjeeling" meaning in English

See Darjeeling in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /dɑ(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒiːlɪŋ/
Etymology: 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 templates: {{bor|en|ne|दार्जिलिङ}} Nepali दार्जिलिङ (dārjiliṅ), {{der|en|bo|རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང}} Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང (rdo rje gling), {{der|en|bo|རྡོ་རྗེ||vajra}} Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (rdo rje, “vajra”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Darjeeling
  1. A town and municipality in northern West Bengal, India. Categories (place): Municipalities of India, Places in India, Places in West Bengal, India, Towns in India, Towns in West Bengal, India
    Sense id: en-Darjeeling-en-name-WhY1xyAu

Noun

IPA: /dɑ(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒiːlɪŋ/ Forms: Darjeelings [plural]
Etymology: 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 templates: {{bor|en|ne|दार्जिलिङ}} Nepali दार्जिलिङ (dārjiliṅ), {{der|en|bo|རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང}} Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང (rdo rje gling), {{der|en|bo|རྡོ་རྗེ||vajra}} Tibetan རྡོ་རྗེ (rdo rje, “vajra”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Darjeeling (countable and uncountable, plural Darjeelings)
  1. Short for Darjeeling tea: tea from or similar to that from Darjeeling, India. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: Darjeeling tea (extra: tea from or similar to that from Darjeeling, India)
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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