Dravidian

Meanings

Proper 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.

Noun

• 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.

Origin

• From Sanskrit द्राविड, hypercorrection of dāviḍa, -ian.