Chumulangma

See also: Chu-mu-lang-ma

English

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin for 珠穆朗瑪／珠穆朗玛 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ), Wade-Giles romanization: Chu¹-mu⁴-lang³-ma³.

Proper noun

Chumulangma

  1. Alternative form of Zhumulangma (refers to Mount Everest).
    • 1977 May 6 [1976], Liao Wei-hua [廖卫华], “Fossil Coral Offers Mute Testimony to Shifting of Earth's Axis [珊瑚化石和地球赤道的变迁]”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 380, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from K'o-hsueh Shih-yen, No 12, 1976, p 23, column 1 [科学实验], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Scientific and Technological, page 26‎[1]:
      As a result of compression, this latter area has been continuously raised upward, thereby forming Chumulangma Peak and a series of unattainably high towering peaks, 7,000 or 8,000 meters above sea level, which are called "roof of the earth."
      [original: […] 而后者则由于挤压的结果，不断向上翘起，从而形成了号称“地球之巅”的珠穆朗玛峰和一系列海拔七、八千米高耸入云的山峰。]
    • 1977 August 26 [1977 August 25], Hsu Yin-sheng, quotee, “Peking 25 Aug Rally Welcomes Chinese Mountain Climbers”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 166, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 1‎[2]:
      "The Chinese mountaineers," he continued, "are a contingent fearing neither hardship nor death, back in 1960 and 1975 they twice ascended Mt Chumulangma from the north slope.
    • 2000, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, chapter 22, in Wheelers‎[3] (Fiction), Warner Books, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 463:
      The procession was heading toward Chumulangma, the most distant of the six mountains.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chumulangma.

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