Zhumulangma

Zhumulangma

See also: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ

English

Alternative forms

• (from Wade–Giles) Chu-mu-lang-ma, Chumulangma

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 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.
   • 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).