Malayalam

Malayalam

See also: malayalam

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mæləˈjɑːləm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɑː.ləˈjɑː.ləm/

• Audio (US)

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Proper noun

Malayalam

1. 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 (bn) (malôyalômô 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 (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 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) (malayāḷaṃ) Marathi: मलयाळम (malyāḷam) Moksha: малаялам (malajalam) 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 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 ⁠

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Dutch

Etymology

From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṃ).

Pronunciation

• audio

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Proper noun

Malayalam n

1. Malayalam

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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
• malayalamsprachig
• Malayalam-sprachig
• Malayalam-Sprecher
• Malayalam-Wort
• Tamil-Malayalam
• Telugu- und Malayalam-Kino

 

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Malay

Etymology

From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷaṃ).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Malayalam

1. Malayalam