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An old poster depicting cruelty, including selling slaves in Algiers, execution, burning, and other cruelties. Cruelty is the intentional infliction of suffering or the inaction towards another's suffering when a clear remedy is readily available. [1] Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept.
A characteristic of Tanglish or Tamil-English code-switching is the addition of Tamil affixes to English words. [12] The sound "u" is added at the end of an English noun to create a Tamil noun form, as in "sound u " and the words "girl-u heart-u black-u" in the lyrics of "Why This Kolaveri Di".
The List of Tamil Proverbs consists of some of the commonly used by Tamil people and their diaspora all over the world. [1] There were thousands and thousands of proverbs were used by Tamil people, it is harder to list all in one single article, the list shows a few proverbs.
The police also reported a decrease in the rape and abduction cases and an increase of 32 per cent cases related to cruelty by husbands and relatives. [2] As per the crime report of Tamil Nadu Police in 2007, a total of 6,612 cases relating to crime against women were registered by the police, which was 39 per cent over the number in 2006. [3]
There are many Tamil loanwords in other languages. The Tamil language , primarily spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka , has produced loanwords in many different languages, including Ancient Greek , Biblical Hebrew , English , Malay , native languages of Indonesia , Mauritian Creole , Tagalog , Russian , and Sinhala and Dhivehi .
Tiru (Tamil: திரு), [9] also rendered Thiru, is a Tamil honorific prefix used while addressing adult males and is the equivalent of the English "Mr" or the French "Monsieur". The female equivalent of the term is tirumati .
Silambu is a hollow anklet made up of a metal such as copper and filled with iron or silver beads that produce noise when the wearer moves or dances. [43] [44] It forms the basis of the Tamil Sangam literature Silappathikaram. [45] It is generally worn by women on the leg and termed as kālchilambu in Tamil ("kal" meaning leg).
Models made of a special mixture of beeswax and sal tree resin were encased in clay and fired to melt the wax leaving a hollow mould, which would then be filled with molten metal and cooled to produce bronze statues. [104] Tamil paintings are usually centered around natural, religious or aesthetic themes. [105]