what does Tamil mean?
TAMIL as NOUN
- Meaning
- the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka
Hypernyms(s) Tamil is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- Meaning
- a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of southern India and Sri Lanka
Hypernyms(s) Tamil is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
TAMIL as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself
Usage Example(s)
- the Tamil Tigers are fighting the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka
- Tamil agglutinative phrases
Pertainym(s)
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