allegory
‘figurative treatment of an unmentioned subject under the guise of another similar to it in some way’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. allegorye, allegorie, alligorie, alligory < O.F. allegorie < Lat. allegoria < Gk. allegoria‘figurative language, description of one thing under the image of another’ literally ‘a speaking about something else’ < allos‘another, different’ < al- + agoreuein ‘speak openly, speak in the assembly’ < al < Tamil al