அல்ல

Cognate with Tamil அல்ல (alla).

• IPA^(key): /älːə/

அல்ல (alla)

1. not

• Gerard F. Diffloth (1968), The Irula Language, a close relative to Tamil‎^[1], University of California, Los Angeles, page 30

From அல்- (al-, negative particle).^[1] Cognate with Irula அல்ல (alla), Kannada ಅಲ್ಲ (alla) and Malayalam അല്ല (alla).

• IPA^(key): /ɐllɐ/

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அல்ல • (alla) (often formal)

1. not

   இது உனதல்ல. ― itu uṉatalla. ― This is not yours.

அல்ல • (alla) (often formal)

1. (absolute negation) no

   Coordinate term: இல்லை (illai)

• In colloquial Tamil, all usages of this term are superseded by இல்லை (illai, existential negation) (with dialectal exceptions) — in contrast with its cognates.

• S. Ramakrishnan (1992), “அல்ல”, in தற்காலத் தமிழ் அகராதி [Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil] (in Tamil), Madras: Cre-A Publishers, page [2]