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Definition of Irula
1. Noun. A Dravidian language closely related to Tamil that is spoken in a hilly section of southwestern India.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irula
Literary usage of Irula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with ...by Meadows Taylor, Great Britain India Office by Meadows Taylor, Great Britain India Office (1875)
"(437) irula WOMEN. ... take a little pains to cultivate them, they are enabled
to buy grain for immediate subsistence and for seed; but as they never irula ..."
2. The Study of Man by Alfred Cort Haddon (1898)
"bull-roarer, irula, in the usual way, but the lad on whom circumcision has been
performed "is furnished with a bundle of large irula (not used for making a ..."
3. The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1899)
"The wooden one, just like the stone one, is Churinga—indeed, the term irula,
which simply means "dressed wood," is seldom used by the natives, and then only ..."
4. The Todas by William Halse Rivers Rivers (1906)
"... is said to have a temple of which the priest is an irula. This is probably an
irula temple to which the Todas make offerings. ..."
5. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1904)
"First of all they took pieces of bark, but could not succeed with this, and then
they cut a churinga irula (irula = wooden) out of a mulga-tree. ..."
6. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"(rr) + i The only instances are kort 'kite (bird)', wirt 'chest of body, desire',
and ert 'irula man' (see III.2 and above under rl). ..."
7. Madras District Gazetteers by Madras (India : State), B. S. Baliga (1908)
"... surrounds the enclosures while the irula priest invokes the deities by blowing
his conch and beating his drum, and pours oblations over, and decorates ..."
8. The People of India: A Series of Photographic Illustrations, with ...by Meadows Taylor, Great Britain India Office by Meadows Taylor, Great Britain India Office (1875)
"(437) irula WOMEN. ... take a little pains to cultivate them, they are enabled
to buy grain for immediate subsistence and for seed; but as they never irula ..."
9. The Study of Man by Alfred Cort Haddon (1898)
"bull-roarer, irula, in the usual way, but the lad on whom circumcision has been
performed "is furnished with a bundle of large irula (not used for making a ..."
10. The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1899)
"The wooden one, just like the stone one, is Churinga—indeed, the term irula,
which simply means "dressed wood," is seldom used by the natives, and then only ..."
11. The Todas by William Halse Rivers Rivers (1906)
"... is said to have a temple of which the priest is an irula. This is probably an
irula temple to which the Todas make offerings. ..."
12. The Northern Tribes of Central Australia by Baldwin Spencer, Francis James Gillen (1904)
"First of all they took pieces of bark, but could not succeed with this, and then
they cut a churinga irula (irula = wooden) out of a mulga-tree. ..."
13. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"(rr) + i The only instances are kort 'kite (bird)', wirt 'chest of body, desire',
and ert 'irula man' (see III.2 and above under rl). ..."
14. Madras District Gazetteers by Madras (India : State), B. S. Baliga (1908)
"... surrounds the enclosures while the irula priest invokes the deities by blowing
his conch and beating his drum, and pours oblations over, and decorates ..."
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