"நகம்" meaning in Tamil

See நகம் in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /n̪aɡam/, /n̪aham/ Audio: Ta-நகம்.ogg
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit नख (nakha). Etymology templates: {{bor+|ta|sa|नख}} Borrowed from Sanskrit नख (nakha) Head templates: {{ta-noun}} நகம் • (nakam) Inflection templates: {{ta-decl}} Forms: nakam [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], நகம் [nominative, singular], நகங்கள் [nominative, plural], நகமே [singular, vocative], நகங்களே [plural, vocative], நகத்தை [accusative, singular], நகங்களை [accusative, plural], நகத்துக்கு [dative, singular], நகங்களுக்கு [dative, plural], நகத்துக்காக [benefactive, singular], நகங்களுக்காக [benefactive, plural], நகத்துடைய [error-unrecognized-form, singular], நகங்களுடைய [error-unrecognized-form, plural], நகத்தின் [error-unrecognized-form, singular], நகங்களின் [error-unrecognized-form, plural], நகத்தில் [error-unrecognized-form, singular], நகங்களில் [error-unrecognized-form, plural], நகத்திடம் [error-unrecognized-form, singular], நகங்களிடம் [error-unrecognized-form, plural], நகத்தோடு [error-unrecognized-form, singular], நகங்களோடு [error-unrecognized-form, plural], நகத்துடன் [error-unrecognized-form, singular], நகங்களுடன் [error-unrecognized-form, plural], நகத்தால் [instrumental, singular], நகங்களால் [instrumental, plural], நகத்திலிருந்து [ablative, singular], நகங்களிலிருந்து [ablative, plural]
  1. fingernail, toenail Synonyms: உகிர்
    Sense id: en-நகம்-ta-noun-UcEi0fdG Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 51
  2. claw, talon
    Sense id: en-நகம்-ta-noun-mmOy388w Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Tamil entries with incorrect language header, Tamil terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 49 51 Disambiguation of Tamil entries with incorrect language header: 37 63 Disambiguation of Tamil terms with redundant script codes: 34 66
     
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}

Download raw JSONL data for நகம் meaning in Tamil (5.0kB)

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  "section": "Tamil",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "நகம்",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Tamil dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.