Urdu and Punjabi are her native languages, but she speaks several others very well, including Tamil, Pashto, and Cantonese.
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Tamil
//θəˈmɪɹ//
Synonyms for "tamil" (3 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (1)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
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3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
7 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
118 translations across 43 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- تَامِيلِيّ name (the language)
- لُغَة تَامِيلِيَّة name (the language)
Armenian
1 entries- թամիլերեն name (the language)
Catalan
3 entries- tàmil adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tàmil name (the language)
- tàmil noun (person)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 泰米爾 /泰米尔 adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- 泰米爾語 /泰米尔语 name (the language)
- 泰米爾人 /泰米尔人 noun (person)
Czech
2 entries- tamilský adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamilština name (the language)
Danish
1 entries- tamilsk adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
Dutch
3 entries- Tamil adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- Tamil name (the language)
- Tamil noun (person)
Esperanto
2 entries- tamulino noun (person)
- tamulo noun (person)
Farefare
3 entries- tamɩl adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamɩlnɛ name (the language)
- tamɩlga noun (person)
Finnish
4 entries- tamili adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamilinkielinen adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamili name (the language)
- tamili noun (person)
French
4 entries- tamoul adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamoul name (the language)
- Tamoul noun (person)
- Tamoule noun (person)
German
4 entries- tamilisch adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- Tamil name (the language)
- Tamilisch name (the language)
- Tamile noun (person)
Hebrew
1 entries- טמילית name (the language)
Hindi
4 entries- तमिल adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- तामिल adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- तमिल name (the language)
- तामिल name (the language)
Hungarian
3 entries- tamil adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamil name (the language)
- tamil noun (person)
Indonesian
2 entries- bahasa Tamil name (the language)
- orang Tamil noun (person)
Italian
2 entries- tamil adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamulo adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
Japanese
2 entries- タミル語 name (the language)
- タミル人 noun (person)
Kannada
2 entries- ತಮಿಳು adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- ತಮಿಳು name (the language)
Kazakh
1 entries- тамил adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
Khmer
3 entries- ទមិឡ adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- ភាសាតាមីល name (the language)
- ទមិឡ noun (person)
Korean
1 entries- 타밀어 name (the language)
Malagasy
1 entries- tamily name (the language)
Malay
3 entries- Tamil adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- bahasa Tamil name (the language)
- orang Tamil noun (person)
Malayalam
4 entries- തമിഴ് adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- തമിഴ് name (the language)
- തമിഴത്തി noun (person)
- തമിഴൻ noun (person)
Marathi
3 entries- तमिळ adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- तमिळ name (the language)
- तमिळ noun (person)
Navajo
1 entries- Tʼáámiil bizaad name (the language)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- tamilsk adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamil name (the language)
- tamil noun (person)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- tamilsk adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamil name (the language)
- tamil noun (person)
Persian
3 entries- تامیل name (the language)
- زبان تامیل name (the language)
- تامیل noun (person)
Polish
4 entries- tamilski adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamilski name (the language)
- Tamil noun (person)
- Tamilka noun (person)
Portuguese
4 entries- tâmil adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tâmil name (the language)
- tâmul name (the language)
- tâmil noun (person)
Punjabi
2 entries- ਤਮਿਲ਼ adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- ਤਮਿਲ਼ noun (person)
Russian
4 entries- тами́льский adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- тами́л name (the language)
- тами́льский name (the language)
- тами́льский язы́к name (the language)
Sinhalese
4 entries- දමිළ name (the language)
- දමිළ භාෂාව name (the language)
- දෙමළ name (the language)
- දමිළ noun (person)
Spanish
3 entries- tamil adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamil name (the language)
- tamil noun (person)
Swedish
2 entries- tamilsk adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- tamil name (the language)
Tamil
4 entries- தமிழ் adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- தமிழ் name (the language)
- தமிழச்சி noun (person)
- தமிழன் noun (person)
Telugu
4 entries- అరవము adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- తమిళము adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- తమిళము name (the language)
- తమిళులు noun (person)
Thai
1 entries- ภาษาทมิฬ name (the language)
Tulu
2 entries- അരവഭാഷ adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
- തമുളു adj (of or pertaining to the Tamil people, culture, or language)
Urdu
1 entries- تامل name (the language)
Vietnamese
2 entries- tiếng Tamil name (the language)
- người Tamil noun (person)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Of the Dravidian languages, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam have the most speakers.
Source: tatoeba (3349437)
My dream is to study Tamil in Chennai.
Source: tatoeba (8863239)
By 2014, the Indian government had declared Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Odia as classical languages of India.
Source: tatoeba (9012879)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.