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Tamil Eelam

Tamil Eelam proper noun: the Tamil-majority provinces of Sri Lanka, comprising of the north and eastern areas.

tamil eelam: the Tamil-majority provinces of Sri Lanka, comprising of the north and eastern areas
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Proper noun

Tamil Eelam

  1. The Tamil-majority provinces of Sri Lanka, comprising of the north and eastern areas.
    1. The proposed independent state comprising of said districts.

Origin of Tamil Eelam

Borrowed from Tamil தமிழீழம் (tamiḻīḻam, “Tamil lands of Eelam (Sri Lanka)”).

Questions about Tamil Eelam

What does Tamil Eelam mean?
Tamil Eelam means the Tamil-majority provinces of Sri Lanka, comprising of the north and eastern areas.
What part of speech is Tamil Eelam?
Tamil Eelam is a proper noun.

Words near Tamil Eelam in the dictionary

  1. Tamien
  2. Tamiflu
  3. Tamika
  4. Tamiko
  5. Tamil
  6. Tamil Eelam
  7. Tamil English
  8. Tamil Nadu
  9. Tamil Tiger
  10. Tamil Tigers
  11. Tamilakam

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Tamil Eelam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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