Synonyms for Tamil
ˈtæm əl, ˈtʌm-, ˈtɑ məltamil

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1. Tamilnoun

   Synonyms:
   Tamilian

2. Tamilnoun

   A Dravidian language spoken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India and in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia.

   Synonyms:
   Tamilian

Princeton's WordNet

1. Tamilnoun

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

2. Tamiladjective

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

3. Tamiladjective

   of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself

   "Tamil agglutinative phrases"

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1. • Dravidian

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1. List of paraphrases for "tamil":

   tamils, ltte, tiger, tigers, eelam

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1. Sonya Sceats:

   Sri Lankan torture survivors in treatment with us are adamant that they cannot trust a purely domestic process and will take comfort from the High Commissioner's warning that there must not be a replay of past broken promises, any process that fails to win the confidence of survivors, including from the Tamil minority, is doomed to fail and may set back the common cause of reconciliation.

2. Anjani Mandal:

   Nearly one million of about 4 million trucks plying long-distance cargo are still off the road, hit by a closure of many businesses and a recent surge in virus cases in the state of Kerala here and neighbouring Tamil Nadu.

3. Animal Director Adrian Harland:

   Tamil would have received a shock -- but in this case it was not enough to stop him.

4. Narendra Modi:

   The government will stand by the people of Tamil Nadu in their hour of need.

5. Radhika Ganesh:

   Caste is an open sort of practice accepted in Tamil Nadu. Everyone is silent about it and the silence is tantamount to creating the violence around it.