Editing Himalayas (section)

==Etymology==
The name of the range hails from the [[Sanskrit]] {{lang|sa-Latn|Himālaya}} ({{wikt-lang|sa|हिमालय}} 'abode of snow'<ref>{{Cite web |title=MW Cologne Scan |url=https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/csl-apidev/servepdf.php?dict=MW&page=1299 |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de}}</ref>), from {{lang|sa-Latn|hima}} ({{wikt-lang|sa|हिम}} 'frost/cold'<ref>{{Cite web |title=MW Cologne Scan |url=https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/csl-apidev/servepdf.php?dict=MW&page=1298 |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de}}</ref>) and {{lang|sa-Latn|ālaya}} ({{wikt-lang|sa|आलय}} 'dwelling/house'<ref>{{Cite web |title=WIL Cologne Scan |url=https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/csl-apidev/servepdf.php?dict=WIL&page=121 |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de}}</ref>).<ref>{{Cite web |title=BEN Cologne Scan |url=https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/csl-apidev/servepdf.php?dict=BEN&page=1115-a |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=WIL Cologne Scan |url=https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/csl-apidev/servepdf.php?dict=WIL&page=976 |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de}}</ref> They are now known as "{{nowrap|the Himalaya Mountains}}", usually shortened to "the Himalayas".

The mountains are known as the {{lang|ne-Latn|Himālaya}} in [[Nepali language|Nepali]] and [[Hindi language|Hindi]] (both written {{lang|hi|हिमालय}}), ''Hinvāl'' (हिंवाळ) in [[Garhwali language|Garhwali]], ''Himāl'' (हिमाल) in [[Kumaoni language|Kumaoni]], the ''Himalaya'' ({{lang|bo|ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡ་}}) or 'The Land of Snow' ({{lang|bo|གངས་ཅན་ལྗོངས་}}) in [[Standard Tibetan|Tibetan]], also known as {{lang|ne-Latn|Himālaya}} in [[Sinhala language|Sinhala]] (written as {{lang|si|හිමාලය}}), the ''Himāliya'' Mountain Range ({{lang|ur|{{Nastaliq|سلسلہ کوہ ہمالیہ}}}}) in [[Urdu]], the ''Himaloy Parvatmala'' ({{lang|bn|হিমালয় পর্বতমালা}}) in [[Bengali language|Bengali]], and the ''Ximalaya'' Mountain Range ({{lang-zh|s=喜马拉雅[[wikt:山脉|山脉]]|p=Xǐmǎlāyǎ Shānmài|c=|t=喜馬拉雅[[wikt:山脉|山脉]]}}) in [[Chinese language|Chinese]].

The name of the range is sometimes also given as [[Himavat|Himavan]] in older writings, including the Sanskrit epic [[Mahabharata]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Roshen Dalal |author-link=Roshen Dalal |title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zrk0AwAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |date=2014|isbn=9788184752779 }} Entry: "Himavan"</ref> [[Himavat]] ([[Sanskrit]]: हिमवत्'')'' or Himavan '''Himavān''' ([[Sanskrit]]: हिमवान्) is a Hindu deity who is the personification of the Himalayan Mountain Range. Other epithets include '''Himaraja''' ([[Sanskrit]]: हिमराज, {{lit|king of snow}}) or '''Parvateshwara''' ([[Sanskrit]]: पर्वतेश्वर, {{lit|lord of mountains}}).

In western literature, some writers refer to it as ''the Himalaya''. This was also previously transcribed as ''Himmaleh'', as in [[Emily Dickinson]]'s poetry<ref>{{citation |last=Dickinson |first=Emily |title=The Himmaleh was known to stoop |author-link=Emily Dickinson |title-link=:s:The Himmaleh was known to stoop}}.</ref> and [[Henry David Thoreau]]'s essays.<ref>{{citation |last=Thoreau |first=Henry David |title=A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers |date=1849 |author-link=Henry David Thoreau}}.</ref>