Dahachok
Dahachok is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 [Nepal census] it had a population of 4,036. It is located in the west of Kathmandu.
Toponymy
Language origin
- Linguistic family: Indoeuropean
- Language: Sanskrit
Etymology
“Daha” means lake or pond. “Chok” means square, open space, or village/market center. Therefore, Dahachok can be interpreted as “the square by the pond” or “the open space near the lake.”Daha means “lake, pond, reservoir” and comes from Sanskrit दह meaning “pond, pool, reservoir.” Chok means “square, marketplace, central place, yard, plaza, quadrangle, courtyard” and comes from Sanskrit चतुष्क meaning “crossing, junction,” in Nepali used as “plaza, open center.”
The toponym Dahachok thus combines a geographical feature with a settlement feature , giving the meaning “the square by the pond.”