Tamil Tigers

English

Proper noun

Tamil Tigers

1. A former guerrilla and conventional militant organization that sought the establishment of an independent homeland (ஈழம் (īḻam, “Eelam”)) in the northeast of Sri Lanka for the minority Tamil community.

Translations

guerrilla organization

• Arabic: نُمُور اَلتَّامِيل m pl (numūr at-tāmīl)
• Catalan: Tigres Tàmils m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泰米爾伊拉姆猛虎解放組織／泰米尔伊拉姆猛虎解放组织 (zh) (Tàimǐ'ěr Yīlāmǔ měnghǔ jiěfàng zǔzhī), 猛虎組織／猛虎组织 (měnghǔ zǔzhī), 泰米爾猛虎組織／泰米尔猛虎组织 (zh) (Tàimǐ'ěr měnghǔ zǔzhī), 泰米爾之虎／泰米尔之虎 (Tàimǐ'ěr zhī hǔ)

• Danish: Tamilske tigere
• Dutch: Tamil tijgers
• Finnish: Tamilitiikerit
• French: Tigres tamouls, Tigres de libération de l’Eelam tamoul
• German: Tamilischen Tigern, Befreiungstiger von Tamil Eelam
• Hebrew: הנמרים הטמילים (ha-namerím ha-tamilím)
• Hindi: तमिल टाइगर्स (tamil ṭāigars)
• Indonesian: Macan Tamil
• Japanese: タミル・イーラム解放のトラ (Tamiru-Īramu kaihō-no torá), タミールタイガース (Tamīru-taigāsu)
• Kannada: ತಮಿಳು ಬಂಡುಕೋರರ (tamiḷu baṇḍukōrara)
• Korean: 타밀 타이거스 (Tamil Taigeoseu)
• Malayalam: തമിഴീഴ വിടുതലൈപ്പുലികൾ (tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaippulikaḷ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tamiltigrene

  Nynorsk: Tamilske tigrane

• Polish: Tamilskie Tygrysy m pl
• Portuguese: Tigres Tamil m pl, Tigres Tâmeis m pl
• Russian: Тами́льские ти́гры m pl (Tamílʹskije tígry)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тамилски тигрови m pl

  Roman: Tamilski tigrovi m pl

• Sinhalese: දෙමළ කොටි (demaḷa koṭi), (full name) දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි සංවිධානය (demaḷa īḷām wimukti koṭi saṁwidhānaya)
• Spanish: Tigres tamiles m
• Swedish: tamilska befrielsetigrarna pl, tamilska tigrarna pl
• Tamil: தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள் (tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ)
• Telugu: తమిళ టైగర్లు (tamiḷa ṭaigarlu)
• Urdu: تامل ٹائیگرز (tāmil ṭāīgarz)
• Vietnamese: Những con Hổ giải phóng Tamil

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Translations to be checked

• Sinhalese: ^{(please verify)} කොටි ත්‍රස්ථවාදීන් නමින්ද හැදින්වේ (koṭi trasthawādīn naminda hædinwē)

See also

• Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tamil Tiger