Tamil Culinary Terminology Absorbed in English
- The word curry is an anglicisation of the Tamil word kari.
- The Tamil phrase milagu thanneer meaning pepper soup, literally pepper water, has been adapted in English as mulligatawny.
- The word Mango is derived from the Tamil word Maangaai.
- The English word rice may have been ultimately derived from Tamil Arisi, although it is similar to the Latin oryza and the derivative arroz in Spanish. The Kannada Akki and the malayalam Ari are a cognate with the same roots.
- The word Congee may have been derived from the Tamil word 'Kanji' (rice porridge) or from Chinese.
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