Tamil honorifics

In Tamil, honorifics (Tamil: முறை, muṟai) governs daily speech and register of both written and spoken communication. Traditionally, Tamil has been classified into two registers viz. செந்தமிழ் (Centamiḻ) meaning 'classical' or 'pure ' Tamil and கொடுந்தமிழ் (Koṭuntamiḻ) meaning 'corrupt' Tamil. A huge feature of this difference is honorifics. Tamil honorifics usually are suffixes, although prefixes are not uncommon.

General

Lexical choice

Lexical choice plays a vital role in Tamil society as depending on the choice of words, the register may alter.

Not all words in Tamil necessarily have a different colloquial, low, standard and high equivalents.

-n, -l, -r

Tamil nouns can end in ன் (n), ள் (ḷ) or ர் (r). ன் (n) and ள் (ḷ) are used to people of lesser social order to denote male and female respectively. ர் (r) is used as a form of respect to a person of higher social order.

Reflecting the importance of this ending, some Tamil castes have re-configured their caste names to end in /r/ rather than /n/, rendering them honorific. Such castes include the Pallar (formerly Pallan) and Paraiyar (formerly Paraiyan).

Five star

Five or 5 Star(s) or star(s), 5* and similar may refer to a grading of a hotel, restaurant, movie, TV show, energy efficiency, theatre or musical work or performance, etc. - see star (classification)

Examples include:

Five star may also refer to:

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