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[ tam-uhl, tuhm-, tah-muhl ] / ˈtæm əl, ˈtʌm-, ˈtɑ məl /
noun, plural Tam·ils, (especially collectively) Tam·il.a member of a people of Dravidian stock of S India and Sri Lanka. the Dravidian language of the Tamils, spoken in India principally in Tamil Nadu state and in Sri Lanka on the N and E coasts. adjectiveof or relating to the Tamils or their language. Words nearby Tamiltameable, tameless, Tamerlane, Tameside, Tamiflu, Tamil, Tamil Eelam, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Tigers, tamis, Tamm Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for TamilPrabhakaran had come to personify the movement, and his end, so wretched, became the emblem of Tamil defeat and Sinhalese triumph. Mahinda Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka’s Reign of Terror|Kapil Komireddi|November 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST The former Tamil bastions in the north and east continue to be exposed to arbitrary violence by Sri Lankan authorities. Mahinda Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka’s Reign of Terror|Kapil Komireddi|November 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST Earlier this year, I spoke to a Sri Lankan lawyer who has helped Tamil families flee the island. Mahinda Rajapaksa and Sri Lanka’s Reign of Terror|Kapil Komireddi|November 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST Months after the Kumbakonam tragedy, a far greater one slammed into the Tamil Nadu coast: the tsunami of December 2004. India’s Most Dangerous Meal: The Poisoned-Lunch Disaster|Dilip D’Souza|July 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Following the Kumbakonam deaths, the Tamil Nadu government banned thatched roofs, and the schools were now building concrete ones. India’s Most Dangerous Meal: The Poisoned-Lunch Disaster|Dilip D’Souza|July 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST This characteristic seems not to be personal but to mark the whole school of Tamil Śaiva writers. Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3)|Charles Eliot They have besides another table of numerals in use, which is curious as being formed by certain letters of the Tamil alphabet. Castes and Tribes of Southern India|Edgar Thurston As before intimated, the Tamil women are far handsomer in features than the Singhalese race. The Pearl of India|Maturin M. Ballou Some of the sowers are in England now, and some are in heaven—sowers and reapers, English and Tamil, rejoice together! Things as They Are|Amy Wilson-Carmichael It is called kalas—the kalasam of the Tamil and Telugu countries—and is a common symbol of the deity. Castes and Tribes of Southern India|Edgar Thurston
British Dictionary definitions for Tamil
nounplural -ils or -il a member of a mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of S India and Sri Lanka the language of this people: the state language of Tamil Nadu, also spoken in Sri Lanka and elsewhere, belonging to the Dravidian family of languages adjectiveof or relating to this people or their language Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |