Tillana, Tillāṇā, Tillāṉā: 3 definitions
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Tillana means something in Marathi, Tamil. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
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Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarytillāṇā (तिल्लाणा).—m ( P) A kind of song.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Kannada-English dictionary
Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpusTillāṇa (ತಿಲ್ಲಾಣ):—[noun] = ತಿಲ್ಲಾನ [tillana].
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Tillāna (ತಿಲ್ಲಾನ):—[noun] a kind of brilliant musical composition that use mnemonic syllables, sung or played briskly, and used esp. for dancing to.
Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.
Tamil dictionary
Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil LexiconTillāṉā (தில்லானா) noun [K. Travancore usage tillāṇa.] A kind of musical composition ending with the expression tillā or tillāṉā; தில்லா அல்லது தில்லானா என்று முடியும் இசைப்பாட்டுவகை. [thilla allathu thillana enru mudiyum isaippattuvagai.]
Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.
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