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Fred asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 9 years ago

Meanings of some Tamil words?

I want to know the English meanings of the following words:

Ennali

Class

Engani (this could be mis-spelled)

Swapnapa (this could be mis-spelled)

Kazhinjo

Update:

I was told that Tamil and Malayalam are very similar (they are after all both in the Dravidic family). I was also told that these words are all Tamil. Hello for example in Malayalam is Namaskaram where in Tamil it is Namaskarab. I might be wrong but that is what I am told.

Update 2:

I was given these words as a kind of test of the power of the internet. I now suspect that I was told that they were Tamil words so that I could not find them. Thank you both for your answers.

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  • Linlithgow
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
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    The words you mentioned are Malayalam words.However some of them appears similar to Tamil.

    Enganai -malayalam Enganam - Tamil "How" is the meaning in English.

    Kazhinjo - Malayalam kazhinthathu -Tamil

    kazhinthu means finished or over.

    Enganam is not used much in Tamil(spoken) nowadays. But still used.

  • rraj
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    these are not Tamil Words , there are Malayalam words [some are not spelled properly. ]

    ennali - mispelled.

    Class - as in ENglish

    Enganai - How was (that)

    Swapnapa ? - Swapna is girls name, Swapna also means dreams

    kazhinjo - is it over ?

    Edit :

    yes Tami and Malayalam are having more similarities ,reason is Malayalam is derived from Tamil with the influence of Sanskrit.

    there is no such word as "namaskarab" in Tamil . In Tamil "Vanakkam" is equivalent for Namaskaram .

    similarities does not make similar meaning always.

    for e.g "vivasayam" - Agriculture in Tamil , Bussiness in Malayalam

    Source(s): i know both languages.
  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Sollunga

  • Bdopongalur
    6 years ago

    vivasayam

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