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  2. Sharp (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Sharp is an English language surname, cognate to the German scharf. It is also akin to words which have the sense of scraping, e.g. Latin scrobis 'ditch', Russian skresti 'to scrape'. [citation needed] Recorded variations of the surname include Sharp, Sharpe, Shairp, Sharpes,Sharps [1] and the diminutives Sharpin, Sharplin and Sharpling.

  3. List of English words of Dravidian origin - Wikipedia

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    The origin of this word cannot be conclusively attributed to Malayalam or Tamil. Congee, porridge, water with rice; uncertain origin, possibly from Tamil kanji (கஞ்சி), [7] Telugu or Kannada gañji, or Malayalam kaññi (കഞ്ഞി). [citation needed] Alternatively, possibly from Gujarati, [8] which is not a Dravidian language.

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

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    Eventhough there is no meaning for the word 'Glabra' in Tamil, this clearly shows the origin of this word. I will try to give the history behind the Tamil word 'Rice'. The word 'Harvest' is also of Tamil origin. The Tamil word is 'Aruvadai'. [User:ChandarSubramanian on sep 23, 2005 at 1510 Hrs IST].

  5. List of English words of Sanskrit origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words of Sanskrit origin. Most of these words were not directly borrowed from Sanskrit. The meaning of some words have changed slightly after being borrowed. Both languages belong to the Indo-European language family and have numerous cognate terms; some examples are "mortal", "mother", "father" and the names of the ...

  6. Sharp Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Sharp Corporation (シャープ株式会社, Shāpu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese electronics company. [4] [5] It is headquartered in Sakai, Osaka, and was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1912 in Honjo, Tokyo, and established as the Hayakawa Metal Works Institute in Abeno-ku, Osaka, in 1924. [6]

  7. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words. See also Latin phonology and ...

  8. Kural - Wikipedia

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    A cir is a single or a combination of more than one Tamil word. For example, the term Tirukkuṟaḷ is a cir formed by combining the two words tiru and kuṟaḷ. [86] The Kural text has a total of 9310 cirs made of 12,000 Tamil words, of which about 50 words are from Sanskrit and the remaining are Tamil original words. [89]

  9. Bible translations into Tamil - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released by Jehovah's Witnesses as a complete Bible translation in Tamil. [4] This replaced the earlier partial translation comprising only the New Testament. [5] It was published online with mobile versions released through JW Library application in App stores. [6]