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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

... temple there are many shrines and many Tamil worshippers; high-caste Brahmans are also there to minister to the supposed wants of the higher gods. Galleries led us out to still other shrines, where are installed additional images of gods, who on fete days are carried about ...

— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

... a copy of one of the earliest Tamil books prepared by these pioneers of our faith. These books have already grown into a large library—the best-developed Christian literature in any vernacular of the East. All over the land mission presses ...

— India, Its Life and Thought • John P. Jones

... but not very generally. This black soil requires little rain, and is fertile without manure. It absorbs water too freely to be suitable for irrigation, and in most seasons does not need it. The 'black cotton soil' is often known as regur, a corruption of a Tamil word. 'The origin of regur is a doubtful question. . . . The dark coloration was attributed by earlier writers to vegetable matter, and taken to indicate a large amount of humus in the soil; more recent investigations make this doubtful, and in all probability ...

— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman

... Roy. There followed frequent reports of this movement, and after a few months a letter from Mr. Adam was published. Even before this there had appeared accounts of William Roberts, of Madras, a native Tamil, who had been educated in England, and had there become a Unitarian. On his return to his own country he had established small congregations in ...

— Unitarianism in America • George Willis Cooke

... deal of gesticulation. At a ball you hear far more French than English spoken, and at a concert I attended lately not a single song was in English. Even in the Protestant churches there is a special service held in French every Sunday, as well as another in Tamil, besides the English services; so a clergyman in Mauritius needs to be a good linguist. The polished floors, well frotte every morning, and the rather set-out style of the rooms, all make a house look French. The ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various

Words linked to "Tamil" : South Dravidian, Dravidian