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The Athichudi (Tamil: ஆத்திசூடி, romanized: Āthichūdi) is a collection of single-line quotations written by Avvaiyar and organized in alphabetical order. There are 109 of these sacred lines which include insightful quotes expressed in simple words. It aims to inculcate good habits, discipline and doing good deeds.
The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary.
Toranams (Tamil: தோரணம் IAST Tōraṇam) are hanging decorations in Tamil Nadu. [1] These decorations are rooted in Tamil culture. [2] The history of this decoration extends back to the Sangam period. In those days there were no printed invitations, so the decorations served to indicate to people visiting that place whether it is a ...
"bāo" 包. False etymology ascribes the origin of the word to Portuguese pão (bread), but this is incorrect; [citation needed] a form of the word "bāo" was already present in Middle Chinese to refer to steamed dumplings. perkasa mighty Sanskrit प्रकाश / prakāśa "enlightened" permaisuri supreme lady, queen Sanskrit
A cir is a single or a combination of more than one Tamil word. For example, the term Tirukkuṟaḷ is a cir formed by combining the two words tiru and kuṟaḷ. [86] The Kural text has a total of 9310 cirs made of 12,000 Tamil words, of which about 50 words are from Sanskrit and the remaining are Tamil original words. [89]
It also indicates "wealth", "respect", and "name" in Tamil. The word tiru is a prefix of many city-names, such as Trivandrum or Thiruvananthapuram; Thiruchendur, ...
Incidentally, the Tamil typewriter used for the project, with a keyboard developed by Yost of the American Mission, was the first to be ever used in an office in India. [4] When Chandler retired in 1922 at the age of 80, about 81,000 words had been compiled. Few more words were added soon, and in 1924 the Lexicon went to press.