Zhumulangma

See also: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 珠穆朗瑪峰珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng), from Tibetan ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (jo mo glang ma), Chomolungma.

Proper noun

Zhumulangma

  1. Synonym of Mount Everest: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
    • 1999, Marshall R. Crosby, Moss Flora of China, Volume 2, Science Press, page vii:
      It [China] has three terraces from the eastern coast to the Qinghai-Xizang plateau in the west, with the highest altitude of 8,848 meters at the peak of Zhumulangma (Mount Everest), the so-called “roof of the world.”
    • 2009, Pingxian Wang and Qianyu Li, introduction to The South China Sea: Paleoceanography and Sedimentology, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1:
      Geomorphologically, the SCS lies to the east of the highest peak on earth, Zhumulangma or Everest in the Himalayas (8,848 m elevation) and to the west of the deepest trench in the ocean, Philippine Trench (10,497 m water depth) (Wang P. 2004).
    • 2019 October 1, Lee, Edmund, “The Climbers film review: Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi in patriotic mountaineering drama”, in South China Morning Post, ISSN 1563-9371, OCLC 648902513, archived from the original on 01 October 2019, Entertainment:
      As part of the trio of Chinese team members who in 1960 reached the summit of Mount Everest – or “Zhumulangma”, as the characters insist it’s called because it’s “our mountain” – assault team leader Fang Wuzhou (Wu Jing) and photographer Qu Songlin (Zhang Yi) have nevertheless lived in deep regret since. The reason? They’ve brought “shame” to their country for failing to provide photographic evidence to make it a legitimate feat in the eyes of the world.
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