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Tamil

noun

A member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka.

The Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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"Tamil" Quotes from Famous Books

... rational or irrational; women, by the bye, being designated amongst the Chiquitos by the irrational sign. Reverential particles, again, are used to distinguish what is high or low in the tribal estimation; and we get in this connection such oddities as the Tamil practice of restricting the privilege of having a plural to high-caste names, such as those applied to gods and human beings, as distinguished from the beasts, which are mere casteless "things." Or, once more, my transferable belongings, "my-spear," or "my-canoe," undergo ...

— Anthropology • Robert Marett

... work among the people, taking her hearers with her in imagination to some of the mission-schools, and to the Sunday services in the little church where her husband had preached. In doing this she repeated a passage of Scripture and sang a hymn in the Tamil language—the language used ...

— A Missionary Twig • Emma L. Burnett

... But of neither site can we give any continuous history. In southern India the introduction of Buddhism took place under the auspices of Asoka himself, though his inscriptions have as yet been found only in northern Mysore and not in the Tamil country. The Tamil poems Manimegalei and Silappadigaram, especially the former, represent it as prevalent and still preserving much of its ancient simplicity. Even in later times when it had almost completely disappeared from southern ...

— Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

Words linked to "Tamil" : Dravidian, South Dravidian