See மெது in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{
"form": "ta-adj-forms",
"source": "inflection",
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"form": "மெதுவான",
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{
"form": "மெதுவாக",
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{
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{
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},
{
"ipa": "[mɛd̪ɯ]"
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],
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"expansion": "Cognates",
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},
{
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},
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{
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"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ta-decl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "மெதுவே",
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"plural",
"vocative"
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{
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"source": "declension",
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"accusative",
"singular"
]
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{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
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{
"form": "மெதுவுக்கு",
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"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"dative",
"plural"
]
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"form": "மெதுவுக்காக",
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"source": "declension",
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"benefactive",
"singular"
]
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"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
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"benefactive",
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]
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"form": "மெதுவுடைய",
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
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"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
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"form": "மெதுவின்",
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "மெதுவிடம்",
"roman": "metuviṭam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "மெதுவோடு",
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
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"form": "மெதுவால்",
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"instrumental",
"singular"
]
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"source": "declension",
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"instrumental",
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],
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"ipa": "/mɛd̪ʊ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[mɛd̪ɯ]"
}
],
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}
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"Tamil adjectives",
"Tamil entries with incorrect language header",
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"Tamil nouns",
"Tamil terms derived from Dravidian languages",
"Tamil terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Tamil terms with redundant script codes",
"Tamil u-stem nouns",
"Tamil uncountable nouns"
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{
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"name": "col-top"
},
{
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"1": "kn",
"2": "ಮೆದು"
},
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},
{
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},
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},
{
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},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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},
"expansion": "Sanskrit मृदु (mṛdu, “gentle, soft, slow”)",
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}
],
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"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ta-adj-forms",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "மெதுவான",
"roman": "metuvāṉa",
"source": "inflection"
},
{
"form": "மெதுவாக",
"roman": "metuvāka",
"source": "inflection"
},
{
"form": "மெதுவாய்",
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"source": "inflection"
}
],
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"lang_code": "ta",
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{
"glosses": [
"slow"
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"slow"
]
]
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{
"glosses": [
"soft"
],
"links": [
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"soft",
"soft"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"gentle"
],
"links": [
[
"gentle",
"gentle"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/mɛd̪ʊ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[mɛd̪ɯ]"
}
],
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}
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"Tamil terms derived from Dravidian languages",
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},
{
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},
"expansion": "Kannada ಮೆದು (medu)",
"name": "cog"
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{
"args": {
"1": "te",
"2": "మెదువు"
},
"expansion": "Telugu మెదువు (meduvu)",
"name": "cog"
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"1": "tcy",
"2": "ಮೆದು"
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"expansion": "Tulu ಮೆದು (medu)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "sa",
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"t": "gentle, soft, slow"
},
"expansion": "Sanskrit मृदु (mṛdu, “gentle, soft, slow”)",
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}
],
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"romanization"
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
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},
{
"form": "ta-decl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "மெது",
"roman": "metu",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "மெதுவே",
"roman": "metuvē",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "மெதுவை",
"roman": "metuvai",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
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},
{
"form": "மெதுவுக்கு",
"roman": "metuvukku",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "மெதுவுக்காக",
"roman": "metuvukkāka",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"benefactive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"benefactive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "மெதுவுடைய",
"roman": "metuvuṭaiya",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"plural"
]
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
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},
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"form": "மெதுவில்",
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"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
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},
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"form": "மெதுவிடம்",
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"source": "declension",
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"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "மெதுவோடு",
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
},
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"tags": [
"error-unrecognized-form",
"singular"
]
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"instrumental",
"singular"
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"instrumental",
"plural"
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},
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"form": "-",
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"plural"
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}
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},
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"gentleness",
"gentleness"
]
],
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]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/mɛd̪ʊ/"
},
{
"ipa": "[mɛd̪ɯ]"
}
],
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}
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"msg": "inflection table: empty tags for மெதுவாக",
"path": [
"மெது"
],
"section": "Tamil",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "மெது",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/1826",
"msg": "inflection table: empty tags for மெதுவாய்",
"path": [
"மெது"
],
"section": "Tamil",
"subsection": "adjective",
"title": "மெது",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive 1'",
"path": [
"மெது"
],
"section": "Tamil",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "மெது",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive 2'",
"path": [
"மெது"
],
"section": "Tamil",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "மெது",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'locative 1'",
"path": [
"மெது"
],
"section": "Tamil",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "மெது",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'locative 2'",
"path": [
"மெது"
],
"section": "Tamil",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "மெது",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'sociative 1'",
"path": [
"மெது"
],
"section": "Tamil",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "மெது",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'sociative 2'",
"path": [
"மெது"
],
"section": "Tamil",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "மெது",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Tamil dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-10-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-10-01 using wiktextract (c8bd62c and a979ada). 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.