In the history of Tamil dictionaries, A Tamil-English Dictionary has a special place. Published in 1870 and reissued in 1888 by V. Visvanatha Pillai, it is probably the first dictionary compiled by a ...
Tamil has no exact equivalent for the term “action potential”. A seminal concept in neuroscience, the phrase stands for the “short pulses of electricity that nerve cells send each other” to relay ...
A glossary of climate change-related words and expressions in the Tamil language was released on Saturday by Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Siva V Meyyanathan, at a workshop ...
CHENNAI: Sorkuvai Project, a comprehensive word corpus initiative of the Directorate of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project of the State government launched in 2019, has uploaded 14 lakh words with ...
Is there a Tamil equivalent of ‘netizen’, ‘hotspot’ or ‘groupfie’? The answer would have been no until a year ago. But a Tamil Nadu government project to create a word bank now has an appropriate ...
CHENNAI: A verse from ancient Tamil devotional treatise Thiruvachakam by saint poet Manickavachakar adores the Almighty as ‘‘munnai pazhamporutkum munnai pazham poruzhae (You are oldest of the old and ...
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