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  2. Tamil loanwords in other languages - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of terms for administrative divisions - Wikipedia

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    zone (division of freguesia) ziemia Poland: land Zillah Pakistan: district Bangladesh India: župa Slovakia: county (historical) županija Bosnia and Herzegovina (Croatian speaking) county Croatia: maahaanam Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) province maavattam Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) district pirathesam/koattam Sri Lanka (Tamil speaking) division ...

  4. List of Sinhala words of Tamil origin - Wikipedia

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    Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...

  5. Proto-South Dravidian language - Wikipedia

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    There are several new words for headman, rulers (including an Indo-Aryan loan word), taxes, armies, territorial divisions, tolls and customs, debt collection and corvée labor. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] There are also terms for urban structures and various types of habitations including villages, towns, castles, forts, prisons (or storehouses), palaces and ...

  6. Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lankan Tamil dialects are distinct from the Tamil dialects used in Tamil Nadu, India.They are used in Sri Lanka and in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.Linguistic borrowings from European colonizers such as the Portuguese, English and the Dutch have also contributed to a unique vocabulary that is distinct from the colloquial usage of Tamil in the Indian mainland.

  7. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    The origin of this word cannot be conclusively attributed to Malayalam or Tamil. Congee, porridge, water with rice; uncertain origin, possibly from Tamil kanji (கஞ்சி), [7] Telugu or Kannada gañji, or Malayalam kaññi (കഞ്ഞി). [citation needed] Alternatively, possibly from Gujarati, [8] which is not a Dravidian language.

  8. Aram (Kural book) - Wikipedia

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    Aṟam is the Tamil word for what is known in Sanskrit as 'Dharma', and pāl means 'division'. [5] [6] The concept of aṟam or dharma is of pivotal importance in Indian philosophy and religion. With a long and varied history, the word straddles a complex set of meanings and interpretations, rendering it impossible to provide a single concise ...

  9. List of loanwords in Malay - Wikipedia

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    "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