enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of Tamil proverbs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tamil_proverbs

    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. Tamil Lexicon dictionary - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Lexicon_dictionary

    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.

  4. Tamil loanwords in other languages - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_loanwords_in_other...

    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.

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

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/2014-06-27-how-people...

    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 ...

  6. Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirumurukāṟṟuppaṭai

    The Tirumurukarruppatai has 312 akaval meter verses, states Zvelebil. [6] According to Francis, the critical editor has 317 verses. [7] It describes the beauty and the warrior nature of Murugan, six sacred shrine regions of Murugan, legends such as the killing of Surapadma, his six faces and the twelve arms along with their functions.

  7. Indo-Aryan loanwords in Tamil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_loanwords_in_Tamil

    The Tamil language of Dravidian family has absorbed many loanwords from Indo-Aryan family, predominantly from Prakrit, Pali and Sanskrit, [1] ever since the early 1st millennium CE, when the Sangam period Chola kingdoms became influenced by spread of Jainism, Buddhism and early Hinduism. Many of these loans are obscured by adaptions to Tamil ...

  8. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of...

    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.

  9. Constanzo Beschi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constanzo_Beschi

    Beschi also composed two other Tamil grammars and three dictionaries, covering Tamil-Latin, Tamil-Portuguese and Tamil-Tamil. He translated and explained in Latin the "Thirukkural", an epic poem of Thiruvalluvar. This Latin work was an eye opener for European intellectuals, enabling them to discover truth and beauty in Tamil literature.