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  2. Bhai Dooj - Wikipedia

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    Bhai Dooj, Bhai Tika, Bhaubeej, Bhai Beej, Bhai Phonta or Bhratri Dwitiya is a festival celebrated by Hindus on the second lunar day of the Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) of Kartika, the eighth month of the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar or the Shalivahana Shaka calendar.

  3. Dvitiya - Wikipedia

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    Dvitiya. Dvitiya (Sanskrit: द्वितीय, romanized: Dvitīya) also referred to as Beej (Sanskrit: बीज, romanized: Bīja) and Dooj (Sanskrit: दुजा, romanized: Dujā) is the Sanskrit word for "second", [1] and is the second day of the lunar fortnight of the Hindu calendar.

  4. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    Dravidian languages include Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and a number of other languages spoken mainly in South Asia. The list is by no means exhaustive. Some of the words can be traced to specific languages, but others have disputed or uncertain origins. Words of disputed or less certain origin are in the "Dravidian languages" list.

  5. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  6. Tamil loanwords in other languages - Wikipedia

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    In the following list, Tamil words are romanised in accordance with Tamil spelling. This results in seeming discrepancies in voicing between Sinhala words and their Tamil counterparts. Sinhala borrowing, however, has taken place on the basis of the sound of the Tamil words; thus, the word ampalam, [ambalam], logically results in the Sinhala ...

  7. Bījamantra - Wikipedia

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    A bījamantra (Sanskrit: बीजमन्त्र, romanized: bījamantra, lit. 'seed-mantra', in modern schwa-deleted Indo-Aryan languages: beej mantra), [1] or a bījākṣara ("seed-syllable"), is a monosyllabic mantra believed to contain the essence of a given deity.

  8. Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lankan Tamil dialects are distinct from the Tamil dialects used in Tamil Nadu, India.They are used in Sri Lanka and in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.Linguistic borrowings from European colonizers such as the Portuguese, English and the Dutch have also contributed to a unique vocabulary that is distinct from the colloquial usage of Tamil in the Indian mainland.

  9. Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    The importance of Tamil loanwords in Biblical Hebrew lies in the fact that these words are the earliest recorded attestation of the Tamil language. At some point before 500 BCE, they were incorporated into the various writings of the Hebrew Bible .