Tamil
Tam·il
[tam-uh
l, tuhm-, tah-muhl] noun, plural Tam·ils ( especially collectively ) Tam·il, adjective noun
1.
a member of a people of Dravidian stock of S India and Sri Lanka.
2.
the Dravidian language of the Tamils, spoken in India principally in Tamil Nadu state and in Sri Lanka on the N and E coasts.
adjective
3.
of or pertaining to the Tamils or their language.
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| —n , -ils, -il | |
| 1. | a member of a mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of S India and Sri Lanka |
| 2. | 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 | |
| 3. | of or relating to this people or their language |
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Tamil
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
Tamil
Dravidian people and language of southern India, 1734, from Pali Damila, from Skt. Dramila, variant of Dravida (see Dravidian).
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