adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to the Dravidian people or language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Dravidian
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/dɹəˈvɪdɪən/
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name
Meaning 2
A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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name
Meaning 3
Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic.
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noun
Meaning 4
A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before Aryan migration.
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noun
Meaning 5
a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Dravidic, Dravidian language
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: natural language, tongue
Narrower terms: South Dravidian, South-Central Dravidian, Central Dravidian, North Dravidian
noun
Meaning 6
a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Indian
Narrower terms: Badaga, Gadaba, Gond, Kanarese, Canarese, Kolam, Kota, Kotar, Kui, Malto, Savara, Tamil, Telugu, Toda, Tulu
History
Etymology
From Sanskrit द्राविड (drāviḍa) + -ian. *tamiḻ > *damiḷ > damiḷa- / damila- and further, with the intrusive, 'hypercorrect' (or perhaps analogical) -r-, into dr(a/ā)viḍa.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: dravídic — Translations
- Czech: drávidský — Translations
- Dutch: Dravidisch — Translations
- Finnish: dravidalainen — Translations
- Latin: dravidicus — Translations
- Punjabi: ਦਰਾਵੜ (darāvaṛ) — Translations
- Sanskrit: द्राविड (drāviḍa) — Translations
- Catalan: dravídic — family of languages
- Chinese Mandarin: 達羅毗荼語系 /达罗毗荼语系 (Dáluópítú yǔxì) — family of languages
- Chinese Mandarin: 德拉維達語系 /德拉维达语系 (Délāwéidá yǔxì) — family of languages
- Czech: drávidské jazyky — family of languages
- Finnish: dravidakielet — family of languages
- French: dravidien — family of languages
- German: Drawidisch — family of languages
- German: Dravidisch — family of languages
- Hindi: द्रविड़ (draviṛ) — family of languages
- Hungarian: dravida — family of languages
- Indonesian: bahasa Dravida — family of languages
- Japanese: ドラヴィダ語族 達羅毗荼語族 (Doravida-gozoku) — family of languages
- Korean: 드라비다어족 (deurabida'eojok) — family of languages
- Malay: bahasa Dravidia — family of languages
- Polish: drawidyjski — family of languages
- Portuguese: dravidiano — family of languages
- Russian: дравиди́йский (dravidíjskij) — family of languages
- Spanish: drávido — family of languages
- Tamil: திராவிட மொழி (tirāviṭa moḻi) — family of languages
- Finnish: dravidakieli — single language
- Malay: bahasa Dravidia — single language
- Polish: drawidyjski — single language
- Catalan: dràvida — person
- Czech: Drávid — person
- Finnish: dravida — person
- Malay: orang Dravidia — person
- Polish: Drawida — person
- Polish: Drawidyjka — person