கூலம்

Tamil

Etymology

Cognate to Brahui خولُم (xolum, “wheat”) and possibly Elamite [script needed] (šulum, “grain”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuːlɐm/

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Noun

கூலம் • (kūlam)

1. grain

References

• Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “கூலம்”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]