Dravidian

Meaning

Name

1. A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
2. Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic.

Noun

A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before Aryan migration.

Adj

Of or relating to the Dravidian people or language.

Synonyms

Dravidic

Tamil

outcaste

Dravidian language

dravida

Nostratic

Translations

Dravidisch

dravidien

drávido

Dravidische Sprache

Dravidien

langues dravidiennes

langue dravidienne

dravídic

dravida

Dravidische taal

Línguas dravídicas

dravidianas

dravidiano

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹəˈvɪdɪən/

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.