Tamilian
noun, adjective
Tamilian is a noun meaning “a person of Tamil ethnicity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-M-I-L-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Tamilian is Tamilians.
What does Tamilian mean?
noun
- 1
a person of Tamil ethnicity
adjective
- 1
Tamil
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Tamilian
- Tamilians plural
- Tamilan
- Thamilan
- Thamizhan
- Tamizhan
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Tamilian?
Tamilian appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Tamilian come from?
From Tamil + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).