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  2. Arwi - Wikipedia

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    Arwi was an outcome of the cultural synthesis between seafaring Arabs and Tamil-speaking Muslims of Tamil Nadu. This language was enriched, promoted and developed in Kayalpattinam . It had a rich body of work in jurisprudence, Sufism , law, medicine and sexology , of which little has been preserved.

  3. Food fortification - Wikipedia

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    Flour loses nutritional value due to the way grains are processed; enriched flour has iron, folic acid, niacin, riboflavin, and thiamine added back to it. Conversely, other fortified foods have micronutrients added to them that don't naturally occur in those substances. An example of this is orange juice, which often is sold with added calcium. [4]

  4. Trincomalee - Wikipedia

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    The ethnographer Megasthenes writing in his Indica from 350 — 290 BCE, describes the island as being divided by a long river, productive of a large number of gold and pearls in one half and that the inhabitants of this country are called Paleogoni, meaning Old Goni in Tamil and Greek, who Pliny adds worshipped Hercules and Dionysus (Bacchus ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Konar (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Konar is a Hindu caste found in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.They are traditionally a pastoral community [1] [2] involved in cattle herding and cultivation. [3] [full citation needed] They are a part of the Yadav community, [4] and are also known as Ayar and Idaiyar, [5] and appear in the ancient Sangam literature as occupants of the Mullai (forest region).

  7. Talk:List of English words of Tamil origin - Wikipedia

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    While modern Tamil and the Tamil spoken thousands of years ago may be very similar, it is incorrect to say that modern Tamil is the root stock of Malayalam, for the obvious reason that modern Malayalam speakers did not get their words and grammar from modern Tamil speakers—they got it from their ancestors, and modern Tamil speakers got their ...

  8. Enrichment - Wikipedia

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    Enrichment or enriched may refer to: Computing. Data enrichment, appending data with context from other sources; see data management;

  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.