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

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

Translations

Himalayan mountain

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 干城章嘉峰 (gon¹sing⁴zoeng¹gaa¹fung¹)

  Mandarin: 干城章嘉峰 (gānchéngzhāngjiāfēng)

• Czech: Kančendženga f, Kančendžanga f
• German: Kangchendzönga (de) m
• Hindi: कंचनजंघा (kañcanjaṅghā), कांचनजंगा (hi) m (kāñcanjaṅgā)
• Hungarian: Kancsendzönga
• Marathi: कांचनजंगा (kāñcanjaṅgā)
• Nepali: कञ्चनजङ्घा (kañcanajaṅghā)
• 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 the Google Books Ngram Viewer.