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say it: tuh-MIL
tamil is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka". It is pronounced /təˈmɪl/ — tuh-MIL. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka
the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka
of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the language itself
“Tamil agglutinative phrases”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tamil come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.