Tamil

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tamil \Ta"mil\, a.
     Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
     [Written also {Tamul}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Tamil \Ta"mil\, n. [Written also Tamul.]
     1. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of
        Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian
        languages. See {Dravidian}, a.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Tamil
       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"
       n 1: a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of
            southern India and Sri Lanka
       2: the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the
          Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka