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Meaning of TAMIL

Pronunciation:  'tâmul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka
  2. [n]  a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of southern India and Sri Lanka
  3. [adj]  of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself; "the Tamil Tigers are fighting the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka"; "Tamil agglutinative phrases"
 
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 See Also: Dravidian, South Dravidian

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Ta"mil\, a.
    Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
    [Written also {Tamul}.]
    
  2. \Ta"mil\, n. [Written also Tamul.]
    1. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of
       Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
    2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian
       languages. See {Dravidian}, a.
    
 

 

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