Kalin (கலின்) is a
Tamil
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People, culture and language
* Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka
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origin name derived from "கலி" which means flourishing, thriving and prospering.
It is also inspired from:
* Tamil grammar written in kalippa (கலி-ப்பா)
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Kalithokai (கலி-த்தொகை) in ancient Tamil
Sangam literature
The Sangam literature (Tamil language, Tamil: சங்க இலக்கியம், ''caṅka ilakkiyam''), historically known as 'the poetry of the noble ones' (Tamil language, Tamil: சான்றோர் செய்யுள், ''Cā ...
Ettuthokai
The Eight Anthologies, known as Eṭṭuttokai () or "Eight Collections" in the literature, is a classical Tamil poetic work that forms part of the Eighteen Greater Texts (''Patiṉeṇmēlkaṇakku'') anthology series of the Sangam Literature. ...
* A type of
Venpa
Venpa or Venba ('' வெண்பா'' in Tamil) is a form of classical Tamil poetry. Classical Tamil poetry has been classified based upon the rules of metric prosody. Such rules form a context-free grammar. Every venba consists of between tw ...
(கலிவெண்பா) in classical Tamil poetry
The female version of Kalin is Kalini.
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Tamil names