Malayalam

See also: malayalam

English

Etymology

From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṁ), from മല (mala, “hill, mountain”) + അളം (aḷaṁ, “place”).

Pronunciation

• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˌmalaˈjaːɭam/, (spelling pronunciation) /-lam/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /mæləˈjɑːləm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑː.ləˈjɑː.ləm/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

Proper noun

Malayalam

1. A Dravidian language spoken in the states of Kerala and Lakshadweep, India.
   • 2012 April 30, Jake Halpern, “The Secret of the Temple”, in The New Yorker:

     Padmanabhan uttered a command in Malayalam, the regional language.

Derived terms

• Malayalamoid

Translations

language

• Amharic: ማላያላም (malayalam)
• Arabic: اَلْمَالَيَالَام m (al-malayalām)
• Armenian: մալայալամ (malayalam)
• Bengali: মালয়ালম ভাষা (bn) (malẏalom bhaśa)
• Breton: malayalameg
• Catalan: malaiàlam m
• Cherokee: ᎹᎴᏯᎵ (maleyali)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬拉雅拉姆語 / 马拉雅拉姆语 (Mǎlāyǎlāmǔ-yǔ)

• Czech: malajálamština f, malajalámský
• Danish: malayalam
• Dhivehi: މަލަޔާޅަމް (malayāḷam̊)
• Dutch: Malayalam (nl) n
• Esperanto: malajala lingvo
• Faroese: malajalam n
• Finnish: malajalam (fi)
• French: malayalam (fr) m
• Georgian: მალაიალამი (malaialami)
• German: Malayalam (de) n, Malajalam n
• Greek: μαλαγιαλαμικά n pl (malagialamiká)
• Hebrew: מליילם
• Hindi: मलयालम (hi) (malayālam)
• Hungarian: malajálam (hu)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bahasa Malayalam
• Italian: malayalam (it) m
• Japanese: マラヤーラム語 (ja) (Marayāramu-go)
• Kannada: ಮಲಯಾಳಂ (kn) (malayāḷaṃ)
• Korean: 말라얄람어 (Mallayallam-eo)
• Lithuanian: malajalių kalba
• Macedonian: малајалски m (malajalski)
• Malay: Malayalam, bahasa Malayalam
• Malayalam: മലയാളം (ml) (malayāḷaṁ)
• Marathi: मलयाळम (malyāḷam), मल्याळी f (malyāḷī)
• Moksha: малаялам (malajälam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: malayalam (no) m

  Nynorsk: malayalam m

• Polish: malajalam m
• Portuguese: malaiala (pt) m
• Russian: малая́лам (ru) m (malajálam)
• Sanskrit: मलयाळम् (sa) (malayāḷam)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: малајалам језик m

  Roman: malajalam jezik m

• Slovak: malajálamčina (sk) f
• Slovene: malajalščina f
• Spanish: malayalam (es) m, malabar (es) m
• Swedish: malayalam (sv)
• Tagalog: wikang Malayalam
• Tamil: மலையாளம் (ta) (malaiyāḷam)
• Telugu: మలయాళ భాష (malayāḷa bhāṣa)
• Thai: ภาษามาลายาลัม (paasăa maalaayaalam), ภาษามลยาฬัม
• Walloon: malayalam

See also

• Malabari
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Malayalam terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code ml, ISO 639-3 code mal (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Malayalam, mal ⁠

Dutch

Etymology

From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṁ).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Malayalam n

1. Malayalam

German

Alternative forms

• Malajalam

Etymology

From Malayalam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /malaˈjaːlam/, /malajaˈlaːm/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Malayalam n (proper noun, strong, genitive Malayalam or Malayalams)

1. Malayalam (language)

Derived terms

• Judäo-Malayalam
• Malayalam-Ära
• Malayalam-Dichter
• Malayalam-Film
• Malayalam-Gedichtsammlung
• Malayalam-Grammatik
• Malayalam-Kalender
• Malayalam-Kino
• Malayalam-Literatur
• Malayalam-Phonologie
• Malayalam-Schauspieler
• Malayalam-Schrift
• Malayalam-Sprachgebiet
• Malayalam-sprachig
• Malayalam-Sprecher
• Malayalam-Wort
• malayalamsprachig
• Tamil-Malayalam
• Telugu- und Malayalam-Kino

Malay

Etymology

From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṁ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malajalam]
• Rhymes: -alam, -lam, -am

Noun

Malayalam

1. Malayalam