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In the following list, Tamil words are romanised in accordance with Tamil spelling. This results in seeming discrepancies in voicing between Sinhala words and their Tamil counterparts. Sinhala borrowing, however, has taken place on the basis of the sound of the Tamil words; thus, the word ampalam, [ambalam], logically results in the Sinhala ...
The Consortium points out that Unicode Tamil is now implemented by all major operating systems and web browsers, and maintains that it should be used in open interchange contexts, such as online, since tools such as search engines would not necessarily be able to identify or interpret a sequence of Unicode private-use code points as Tamil text ...
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
Tamil Lexicon (Tamil: தமிழ்ப் பேரகராதி Tamiḻ Pērakarāti) is a twelve-volume dictionary of the Tamil language. Published by the University of Madras , it is said to be the most comprehensive dictionary of the Tamil language to date.
This is a list of historical ship types, which includes any classification of ship that has ever been used, excluding smaller vessels considered to be boats. The classifications are not all mutually exclusive; a vessel may be both a full-rigged ship by description, and a collier or frigate by function. A two-masted schooner Aircraft Carrier
Poompuhar Shipping Corporation Limited (Tamil: பூம்புகார் கப்பல் போக்குவரத்துக் கழகம்) is a ...
shipper may refer to: Someone who provides or sends goods for shipment , by packaging, labeling, and arranging for transit, or who coordinates the transport of goods Shipping (fandom) , someone who supports a romantic relationship between two real or fictional people, usually on the Internet
The English word "catamaran" is derived from the Tamil word, kattumaram (கட்டுமரம்), which means "logs bound together". However, the original kattumaram did not refer to double-hulled boats at all, but to a type of single-hulled raft of the Tamil people made of three to seven tree trunks lashed together. The term has evolved ...