Collection of names of animals as portrayed in Tamil classics

Explore a comprehensive dictionary of animal names from Tamil classics, highlighting their rich vocabulary and ecological ...
The Hindu

First Tamil-English dictionary by a Tamil

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 ...
The New Indian Express

Come March, new Tamil dictionaries are likely to hit the stands

CHENNAI: The 45-year-old Directorate of Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project is reinventing itself to preserve Tamil words for posterity. The directorate is all set to bring out three dictionaries ...
The New Indian Express

New Vocabulary to Keep Tamil Modern

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 ...
Business Line

Tamil glossary on climate change released

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 ...
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Scientists in Bengaluru have joined hands to expand the science vocabulary of Tamil and Kannada

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 ...
Indiatimes

Word wise: Keeping Tamil young and contemporary

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 ...