Tamil Nadu

See also: Tamilnádu

English

Etymology

Transliteration of Tamil தமிழ் நாடு (tamiḻ nāṭu, literally “Tamil country”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Tamil Nadu

2. A state in southern India. Capital: Chennai.

   Synonyms: TN, IN-TN (symbols)

   • 2025 September 8, Sanjay Vijayakumar, “Tamil Nadu second biggest market for small business credit: study”, in The Hindu‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 September 2025:

     Tamil Nadu is the second biggest market for small business credit, accounting for 9.3% of the national total, as per a joint report by Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and credit bureau CRIF High Mark. As of June 30, 2025, Tamil Nadu had an outstanding small business credit portfolio of about ₹4.21 lakh crore, up 15.7% from ₹3.64 lakh crore as of June 30 2024, the report said. Maharashtra remained the largest market with ₹6.0 lakh crore in outstanding credit, while Tamil Nadu, Gujarat (₹3.69 lakh crore), Uttar Pradesh (₹3.61 lakh crore), and Karnataka (₹3.18 lakh crore) round out the top five by portfolio size. Uttar Pradesh registered highest outstanding portfolio growth of 20.7% on a year-on-year basis. The report defines "Small Business" as those businesses that have an aggregated credit exposure not exceeding ₹5 crore from the formal lending system.

Related terms

• Tulu Nadu

Translations

state in southern India

• Arabic: تَامِيل نَادُو m (tamīl nadū)
• Armenian: Թամիլնադ (hy) (Tʻamilnad)
• Assamese: তামিল নাডু (tamil nadu)
• Bengali: তামিলনাড়ু (bn) (tamilnaṛu), তামিল নাড়ু (bn) (tamil naṛu)
• Bulgarian: Тамил Наду (Tamil Nadu)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chhattisgarhi: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泰米爾納德 / 泰米尔纳德 (zh) (Tàimǐ'ěr Nàdé)

• Czech: Tamilnádu
• Dhivehi: ޓެމިލް ނާޑޫ (ṭemil nāḍū)
• Finnish: Tamil Nadu
• French: Tamil Nadu (fr) m
• Georgian: ტამილნადუ (ṭamilnadu)
• German: Tamil Nadu (de) n
• Greek: Ταμίλ Ναντού (el) (Tamíl Nantoú)
• Gujarati: તમિલનાડુ (tamilnāḍu)
• Hebrew: טאמיל נאדו
• Hindi: तमिल नाडु m (tamil nāḍu), तामिल नाडू (hi) m (tāmil nāḍū), तमिलनाडु (hi) m (tamilnāḍu)
• Hungarian: Tamilnádu (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: Tamil Nadu m
• Japanese: タミル・ナードゥ州 (Tamiru-Nādu-shū), タミル・ナードゥ (Tamiru-Nādu)
• Kannada: ತಮಿಳ್ ನಾಡು (tamiḷ nāḍu), ತಮಿಳುನಾಡು (kn) (tamiḷunāḍu)
• Korean: 타밀나두 주 (Tamilladu ju), 타밀나두 (Tamilladu)
• Latvian: Tamilnāda
• Lithuanian: Tamilnadas, Tamil Nadu
• Malayalam: തമിഴ് നാഡു (tamiḻŭ nāḍu), തമിഴ്നാട് (tamiḻnāṭŭ)
• Marathi: तमिळनाडू (tamiḷnāḍū)
• Mizo: please add this translation if you can
• Odia: ତାମିଲନାଡୁ (tāmilanāḍu)
• Persian: تامیل نادو
• Portuguese: Tamil Nadu m
• Punjabi: ਤਾਮਿਲ ਨਾਡੂ (tāmil nāḍū)
• Russian: Тами́л На́ду m (Tamíl Nádu)
• Santali: please add this translation if you can
• Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: Tamilnádu, Tamilnád
• Spanish: Tamil Nadu m
• Tamil: தமிழ்நாடு (ta) (tamiḻnāṭu), தமிழ் நாடு (ta) (tamiḻ nāṭu)
• Telugu: తమిళనాడు (te) (tamiḷanāḍu)
• Thai: ทมิฬนาฑู (tá-min-naa-duu)
• Ukrainian: Тамілнаду (Tamilnadu), Таміл-Наду (Tamil-Nadu)
• Urdu: تامل ناڈو (tamil nāḍu)
• Vietnamese: Tamil Nadu

See also

states of Indiaedit

• Andhra Pradesh
• Arunachal Pradesh
• Assam
• Bihar
• Chhattisgarh
• Goa
• Gujarat
• Haryana
• Himachal Pradesh
• Jharkhand
• Karnataka
• Kerala ~ Keralam
• Madhya Pradesh
• Maharashtra
• Manipur
• Meghalaya
• Mizoram
• Nagaland
• Odisha
• Punjab
• Rajasthan
• Sikkim
• Tamil Nadu
• Telangana
• Tripura
• Uttarakhand
• Uttar Pradesh
• West Bengal

union territories of Indiaedit

• Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Chandigarh
• Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
• Delhi
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Ladakh
• Lakshadweep
• Puducherry

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Tamil Nadu.

Proper noun

Tamil Nadu m

1. Tamil Nadu (a state in southern India)