Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of a Dravidian people of southern India and northern Sri Lanka.
- n. The Dravidian language of the Tamil.
- adj. Of or relating to the Tamil or their language or culture.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of a race of men inhabiting southern India and Ceylon, belonging to the Dravidian stock. The Tamils form the most civilized and energetic of the Dravidian peoples.
- n. A language spoken in southern India and in parts of Ceylon. It is a member of the Dravidian or Tamilian family. See Dravidian.
- n. Also Tamul, Tamulic.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language.
- n. A person whose ethnic origins come from Tamil Nadu, India or Sri Lanka.
- n. A Dravidian language spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India and in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
- n. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
- n. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself
- n. a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka
- n. the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka
Etymologies
- Tamil. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Dr. Karunaratne who uses the term Tamil homeland in his campaign and says that it is in ruins today but the war is not over, is hopeful of "national unity based on Equality, Autonomy and the Rights of Self Determination.”
“A Tamil is not just ‘anyone who happens to live within the boundaries of TN’.”
“Both major political parties in Tamil Nadu originated from the ideology of Dravidian nationalism (their very names tell you so).”
“The Times of India reports that two young girls have been wed to frogs in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district, to prevent the outbreak of mysterious diseases in the village ''.”
“Police in Tamil Nadu are working on a theory that a transexual gang operating in south India is luring young boys and forcing them to undergo sex change operation and later engage them in prostitution.”
Retired doctor carries out GRS on children who are then trafficked into prostitution
“An estimated 30,000 transgender persons live in Tamil Nadu and there are more than half a million of them across India.”
Retired doctor carries out GRS on children who are then trafficked into prostitution
“PUDUCHERRY: In a bizarre ritual, two minor girls, both seven, from the remote Pallipudupet village in Tamil Nadu's Villupuram district were married off to frogs on Friday night.”
“October 8th, 2009 In order to foster handloom as well as khadi products, the conform uncover will be held in Tamil Nadu.”
“Fashion uncover in Tamil Nadu to foster handloom outfits”
“The machines, which have already been tested successfully in Tamil Nadu, India produce low-cost, biodegradable pads from wood pulp.”
The Huffington Post: Gail Vida Hamburg: Money Catches up With Meaning in Social Enterprise
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Tamil’.
-
INTERP - languages
This is not a scientific list based on unified criteria, the sole aim was to collect as many language names as possible.
The list contains the names of the following artificial langua...Abkhazian, Achinese, Acoli, Adangme, Adyghe, Afar, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Albanian, Amharic, Angika and 8674 more...
-
INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for Tamil.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.