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  2. List of Tamil proverbs - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Nālaṭiyār - Wikipedia

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    Along with the Tirukkural, it is one of the first books published in Tamil, when it came to print from palm leaf manuscripts for the first time in 1812. [8] There is an old Tamil proverb praising the Nālaṭiyār that says " Nālaṭiyār and the Tirukkural are very good in expressing human thoughts just as the twigs of the banyan and the neem ...

  4. Tamil Lexicon dictionary - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Tanittamil Iyakkam - Wikipedia

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    The Tamil purism movement successfully lobbied for Tamil to be declared a "classical language" of India in 2004, [1] a status also accorded to few other languages (Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada etc.) later in the Indian constitution. This gave rise to the Centre for the Study of Tamil as a Classical Language in Chennai, but it took another year to ...

  6. Kural - Wikipedia

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    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. [84] 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. [87]

  7. Glossary of names for the Tirukkural - Wikipedia

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    The book came to be called by the name of its author, which is a traditional Tamil literary practice known as Karuthāgupeyar. [13] Tiruvalluvar was employed by Swaminatha Desikar and Valluvar by Umapathi Shivacchariyar. [14] 7: பொய்யாமொழி (Poyyāmoḻi) The infallible words: Velliveedhiyar

  8. How people define beauty in 19 different countries - AOL

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    Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder, but do different countries, with their different cultural values, have different ideas of what is beautiful? One recent college graduate wanted to ...

  9. Tamil onomatopoeia - Wikipedia

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    Tamil onomatopoeia refers to the Tamil language words that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. The rules of Tamil onomatopoeia are laid down in the grammar book Tolkāppiyam from Sangam literature .