Zhumulangmaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the Hanyu Pinyin^[1] 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.

固有名詞

Zhumulangma

1. Synonym of Mount Everest: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1975, “China”, in Sunset Travel Guide to the Orient: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, China‎^[1], Menlo Park, Cali.: Lane Publishing, published 1977, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174, column 1:

     China’s mountains include the world’s highest peak —Zhumulangma (Mount Everest) at 29,028 feet— and the country embraces one of the world’s low points, the Turfan Depression, 426 feet below sea level.

   • 1992, Jiacheng Zhang, Zhiguang Lin, “Wind Velocity”, in Ding Tan, transl., Climate of China‎^[2], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 198:

     Of course, much higher mean wind speeds can be expected at the tops of the great mountains (e.g., Zhumulangma) although, unfortunately, no observational records are available.

   • 1999, Marshall R. Crosby, Moss Flora of China‎^[3], 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, Edmund Lee, “The Climbers film review: Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi in patriotic mountaineering drama”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 October 2019, Entertainment‎^[5]:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zhumulangma.

参照

Further reading

• Zhumulangma at Google Ngram Viewer
• “Zhumulangma” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.