Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tamil

Tamil , adjective

Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.

Tamil , noun

[Written also Tamul.]

1.
(Ethnology) One of a Dravidian race of men native of Northern Ceylon and Southern India.
2.
The Tamil language, the most important of the Dravidian languages. See Dravidian, a.