நால்கு

Tamil

**Tamil cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : நால்கு (nālku) Ordinal : நான்காவது (nāṉkāvatu)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Dravidian *nāl-k(k)V. Cognate with Kannada ನಾಲ್ಕು (nālku), Telugu నాలుగు (nālugu), Gondi నాలుంగ్ (nāluṅg), Kolami నాలిగ (nāliga).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /n̪aːlɡʊ/, [n̪aːlɡɯ]
(Spoken) IPA^(key): [n̪ɑːlɣɯ]

Numeral

நால்கு • (nālku)

four

Synonyms

நல் (nal) (before vowels)
நால் (nāl) (before consonants)
நான்கு (nāṉku)
நாலு (nālu) — colloquial

References

Johann Philipp Fabricius, Na. Kadirvelu Pillai, David W. McAlpin, Rajagopal Subramanian, University of Madras, Miron Winslow (2022) “நால்கு”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Tamil Dictionaries]

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