dravidian
IPA: drʌvˈɪdiʌn
Root Word: Dravidian
noun
- A family of related ethnicities and languages primarily in Southern India, Northeast Sri Lanka, and parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Any of the languages of these aboriginal peoples; Dravidic.
- A member of any of several aboriginal peoples of India and Sri Lanka thought to have spread in India before Aryan migration.
adjective
- Of or relating to the Dravidian people or language.
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Examples of "dravidian" in Sentences
- The pillars are of the Dravidian order.
- It is as dravidian as tamil or malayalam.
- Aryan and dravidian are not racial groups.
- But jumped to relation to Dravidian language.
- Can this be classified as a Dravidian Party .
- And it is not from other dravidian languages.
- The dravidian movement is based on rationalism.
- Consecration and Dravidian style of architecture.
- This was the idea of the Dravidians about their Godhead.
- It spread the Dravidian culture, the literary and architectural grandeur.