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darjeeling

/dɑ(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒiːlɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables
dar-jeel-ing
IPA
/dɑ(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒiːlɪŋ/
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

name

A district of West Bengal, India.

noun

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

Countable; Uncountable

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”).

Word Breakdown

  • Root: दार्जिलिङ, རྡོ་རྗེ་གླིང, རྡོ་རྗེ

Usage

Inflected Forms

Darjeelings (plural)

Rhymes With

feeling dealing healing stealing ceiling revealing appealing sealing kneeling peeling wheeling concealing

Questions

How do you pronounce darjeeling?
The recorded pronunciation is /dɑ(ɹ)ˈd͡ʒiːlɪŋ/.
What does darjeeling mean?
A city and municipality in northern West Bengal; the headquarters of Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India.
Where does darjeeling come from?
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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