Tamil (redirected from Tamils)

Tam·il  (tml, tm-, täml)

n. pl. Tamil or Tam·ils

1. A member of a Dravidian people of southern India and northern Sri Lanka.

2. The Dravidian language of the Tamil.

adj.

Of or relating to the Tamil or their language or culture.

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Tamil [ˈtæmɪl]

n

1. (Social Science / Peoples) pl -ils, -il a member of a mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of S India and Sri Lanka

2. (Linguistics / Languages) 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

adj

(Linguistics / Languages) of or relating to this people or their language

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Tamil - a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka Dravidian - a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
	2.	Tamil - the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka South Dravidian - a Dravidian language spoken primarily in southern India
Adj.	1.	Tamil - of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself; "Tamil agglutinative phrases"

Translations

Tamil [ˈtæmɪl]

A. ADJ → tamil

B. N → tamil mf

Tamil [ˈtæmɪl]

adj → tamoul(e), tamil(e)

n

(= person) → Tamoul(e) m/f, Tamil(e) m/f

(LINGUISTICS) → tamoul m, tamil m

Tamil [ˈtæmɪl]

1. adj → tamil inv

2. n (person) → tamil m/f; (language) → tamil m