Kangchenjunga

English

Alternative forms

Kanchenjunga, Kinchinjunga

Etymology

From Tibetan གངས་ཆེན་མཛོད་ལྔ་ (gangs chen mdzod lnga, literally “five treasures of the high snow”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌkʌŋt͡ʃənˈd͡ʒʌŋɡə/, /ˌkʌn-/, /-ˈd͡ʒʊŋ-/

Proper noun

Kangchenjunga

A Himalayan mountain between Nepal and India, the third highest in the world.

Translations

Himalayan mountain

Czech: Kančendženga f, Kančendžanga f
German: Kangchendzönga (de) m
Hindi: कंचनजंघा (kañcanjaṅghā), कांचनजंगा (hi) m (kāñcanjaṅgā)
Hungarian: Kancsendzönga
Polish: Kanczendzonga f
Russian: Канченджанга f (Kančendžanga)
Sikkimese: ཁང་ཅེན་ཛོཾག་ (khang cen dzoṃg)
Slovak: Kančendžonga f, Káčaňdžunga f
Tibetan: གངས་ཆེན་མཛོད་ལྔ་ (gangs chen mdzod lnga)

Further reading

“Kangchenjunga”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Kangchenjunga, Kanchenjunga, Kinchinjunga at Google Ngram Viewer

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