Tam·il /ˈtæməl, ˈtɑ-/
  坦米爾人,坦米爾語
  Ta·mil a. Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language. [Written also Tamul.]
  Ta·mil, n.
  1. Ethnol. 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.
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  Tamil
       adj : of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the
             language itself; "the Tamil Tigers are fighting the
             Sinhalese in Sri Lanka"; "Tamil agglutinative phrases"
       n 1: a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of
            southern India and Sri Lanka
       2: the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the
          Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka