Malayalam

See also: malayalam

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṃ), from മല (mala, “hill, mountain”) + അളം (aḷaṃ, “place”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /maləˈjɑːləm/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑː.ləˈjɑː.ləm/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

Malayalam (uncountable)

A Dravidian language spoken in the states of Kerala and Lakshadweep, India.
- 2012, Jake Halpern, "The Secret of the Temple", The New Yorker, 30 Apr 2012:
  Padmanabhan uttered a command in Malayalam, the regional language.

Translations

language

Amharic: ማላያላም (malayalam)
Arabic: اَلْمَالَيَالَام‎ m (al-malayalām)
Armenian: մալայալամ (malayalam)
Bengali: মালয়ালম ভাষা (malyalôm bhaṣa)
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 (malayāḷam)
Dutch: Malayalam (nl) n
Esperanto: malajala lingvo
Faroese: malajalam n
Finnish: malajalam (fi)
French: malayalam (fr) m
Georgian: მალაიალამი (malaialami)
German: Malayalam (de) n
Greek: μαλαγιαλαμικά n pl (malagialamiká)
Hebrew: מליילם‎
Hindi: मलयालम (hi) (malayālam)
Hungarian: malajálam (hu)
Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bahasa Malayalam
Italian: ^{(please verify)} lingua malayalam f
Japanese: マラヤーラム語 (ja) (Marayāramu-go)

Kannada: ಮಲಯಾಳಂ (kn) (malayāḷaṃ)
Korean: 말라얄람어 (Mallayallam-eo)
Lithuanian: malajalių (lt) kalba
Malay: Malayalam, bahasa Malayalam
Malayalam: മലയാളം (ml) (malayāḷaṃ)
Marathi: मलयाळम (malayāḷama)
Moksha: малаялам (malajalam)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: malayalam (no) m

Nynorsk: malayalam m
Polish: malajalam m
Portuguese: malaiala (pt)
Russian: малая́лам (ru) m (malajálam)
Sanskrit: मलयाळम् (malayāḷam)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: малајалам језик m

Roman: malajalam jezik m
Slovak: malajálamčina f
Slovene: malajalščina f
Spanish: malayalam (es) m, malabar (es) m
Swedish: malayalam (sv)
Tagalog: wikang Malayalam
Tamil: மலயாளம் (malayāḷam)
Telugu: మలయాళ భాష (malayāḷa bhāṣa)
Thai: ภาษามาลายาลัม (paasăa maalaayaalam), ภาษามลยาฬัม
Walloon: malayalam

See also

Wiktionary's coverage of Malayalam terms

Further reading

ISO 639-1 code ml, ISO 639-3 code mal

Ethnologue entry for Malayalam, ml

Dutch

Etymology

From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṃ).

Pronunciation

audio (file)

Proper noun

Malayalam n

Malayalam

German

Etymology

From Malayalam.

Noun

Malayalam n

Malayalam

Malay

Etymology

From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṃ).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Malayalam

Malayalam

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