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Tam⋅il

  [tam-uhl, tuhm-, tah-muhl] noun, plural -ils, (especially collectively) -il, adjective
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–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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Tam·il   (tām'əl, tŭm'-, tä'məl)   
n.   pl. Tamil or Tam·ils
  1. A member of a Dravidian people of southern India and northern Sri Lanka.
  2. The Dravidian language of the Tamil.
adj.  Of or relating to the Tamil or their language or culture.

[Tamil.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Tamil

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

Tamil

Ta"mil\, n. [Written also Tamul.]

1. (Ethnol.) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.

2. The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Tamil 
Dravidian people and language of southern India, 1734, from Pali Damila, from Skt. Dramila, variant of Dravida (see Dravidian).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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