English Wiktionary — ஊடல் (ūṭal), Tamil entry
- Author: unauthored (crowd-edited)
- Publication: English Wiktionary
- Date: undated (crowd-edited entry); accessed 2026-09-08
- URL: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ஊடல்
- Type: tertiary (crowd-edited dictionary aggregator) — neutral, lexicographic; corroborating rather than independent (its definitions closely track the Tamil Lexicon's own wording, see Gaps)
- Accessed: 2026-09-08
Extract
- Gives ஊடல் (ūṭal) as both a verb form ("the gerund of ஊடு") and a noun, with two senses: (1) "a fit of sulkiness, bouderie (as between lovers or partners)"; (2) explicitly citing the classical akam-poetics sense, "love quarrel, between husband and wife, arising from jealousy, appropriate to the agricultural tracts" — near-identical wording to the University of Madras Tamil Lexicon entry (see DSAL), which is Wiktionary's evident source.
- Gives the IPA pronunciation /uːɖɐl/.
- Confirms the romanized-English spellings "oodal"/"ootal" have no separate English-language Wiktionary entry of their own — direct fetches of
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oodalanden.wiktionary.org/wiki/ootalboth returned HTTP 404 this session, unlike (e.g.) iktsuarpok, which does have a romanized-form entry.
Gaps
- This entry appears to be derived directly from the Tamil Lexicon rather than an independent lexicographic judgment — filed as corroboration of that primary source's currency in a modern reference work, not as a second independent primary source.