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Peacock, a type of bird; from Old English pawa, the earlier etymology is uncertain, but one possible source is Tamil tokei (தோகை) "peacock feather", via Latin or Greek [37] Sambal, a spicy condiment; from Malay, which may have borrowed the word from a Dravidian language [38] such as Tamil (சம்பல்) or Telugu (సంబల్).
English loans are mostly related to trade, science and technology while Arabic loans are mostly religious as Arabic is the liturgical language of Islam, the religion of the majority of Malay speakers. However, many key words such as surga/syurga (heaven) and the word for "religion" itself (agama) have origins in Sanskrit.
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.It is a field of research in computer science that develops and studies methods and software that enable machines to perceive their environment and use learning and intelligence to take actions that maximize their chances of achieving defined goals. [1]
Chinese, Malay and Tamil programs (except for news bulletins and other live shows), usually have subtitles in English and the original language during the prime time hours. Dual sound programs, such as Korean and Japanese dramas, offer sound in the original languages with subtitles, Mandarin-dubbed and subtitled, or English-dubbed.
At the second day, the film earned around ₹ 16 crore (US$1.9 million) in Tamil Nadu. [122] In the third and fourth day, [123] the film made ₹ 17 crore (US$2.0 million) and ₹ 18 crore (US$2.2 million) in Tamil Nadu, respectively, [124] thereby making the first weekend collection to be around ₹ 65 crore (US$7.8 million). [125]
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .
There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages. The Tamil language , primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka , has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek , Biblical Hebrew , English , Malay , native languages of Indonesia , Mauritian Creole , Tagalog , Russian , and Sinhala and Dhivehi .
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.