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Definition of Dravidian
1. Noun. A member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them).
Specialized synonyms: Badaga, Gadaba, Gond, Canarese, Kanarese, Kolam, Kota, Kotar, Kui, Malto, Savara, Tamil, Telugu, Toda, Tulu
2. Noun. A large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka.
Generic synonyms: Natural Language, Tongue
Specialized synonyms: South Dravidian, South-central Dravidian, Central Dravidian, North Dravidian
Definition of Dravidian
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
Definition of Dravidian
1. Proper noun. A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan, and Bangladesh. ¹
2. Proper noun. Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic. ¹
3. Noun. A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before and after Aryan migration. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Dravidian
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dravidian
Literary usage of Dravidian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The great body of Dravidian speech in the south seems, however, to have had its
origin, equally with the Aryan languages, to the north-west of the Himalayas ..."
2. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"Kolami, a Dravidian Language, University of California Publications in Linguistics 12
... Dravidian Borrowings from Indo-Aryan, University of California ..."
3. Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-fishing : Origins to the Age of Discoveries by R. A. Donkin (1998)
"The adoption of a Dravidian name for the pearl implies early and persistent ...
60) might be explained by the presence of Dravidian merchants in northern ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1904)
"Dravidian ELEMENT AMONG THE BATAKS. According to Professor H. Kern, the eminent
Dutch Orientalist, certain Dravidian ethnic names occur among the ..."
5. History of Indian and Eastern Architecture by James Fergusson (1899)
"It wants, however, the compactness and strongly-marked individuality of the
Dravidian, and never was developed with that exuberance which characterised the ..."
6. Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth by Arthur Coke Burnell (1878)
"It is, therefore, almost certain that the three great Dravidian languages ...
The Dravidian languages naturally separate into two classes—the Telugu which ..."
7. The Science of Language: Linguistics, Philology, Etymology by Abel Hovelacque (1877)
"In his important work on the Dravidian tongues, Caldwell divides them into two
groups, according as they are cultivated or not. The first consists of six ..."