Malayalam

See also malayalam

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /maləˈjɑːləm/
• (US) IPA: /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 (am)
• Arabic: الماليالام (ar) (al-malayalaam) m
• Armenian: մալայալամ (hy) (malayalam)
• Bengali: মালয়ালম ভাষা (bn)
• Breton: malayalameg (br)
• Catalan: malaiàlam (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎹᎴᏯᎵ (chr) (Maleyali)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: malajálamština (cs) f, malajalámský (cs)
• Danish: malayalam (da)
• Dhivehi: މަލަޔާޅަމް (dv)
• Dutch: Malayalam (nl) n
• Esperanto: Malajala lingvo (eo)
• Finnish: malajalam (fi)
• French: malayalam (fr) m
• Georgian: მალაიალამი (ka) (malaialami)
• German: Malayalam (de) n
• Greek: μαλαγιαλαμικά (el) (malayialamiká) n pl
• Hebrew: מליילם (he)
• Hindi: मलयालम (hi) (malayālam)
• Hungarian: malajálam (hu)
• Indonesian: bahasa Malayalam (id)
• Italian: lingua malayalam (it) f

• Japanese: マラヤーラム語 (ja) (Marayāramu-go)
• Kannada: ಮಲಯಾಳಂ (kn) (malayāḷaṃ)
• Korean: 말라얄람어 (ko) (Mallayallam-eo)
• Lithuanian: malajalių (lt) kalba
• Malay: Malayalam (ms), bahasa Malayalam (ms)
• Malayalam: മലയാളം (ml) (malayāḷaṁ)
• Marathi: मलयाळम (mr) (malayāḷama)
• Moksha: малаялам (malajalam)
• Norwegian: malayalam (no)
• Polish: malajalam (pl) m
• Portuguese: malaiala (pt)
• Russian: малаялам (ru) (malajálam) m
• Sanskrit: मलयाळम् (sa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: малајалам језик (sh) m

  Roman: malajalam jezik (sh) m

• Slovak: malajálamčina (sk) f
• Slovene: malajalščina (sl) f
• Spanish: malayalam (es) m, malabar (es) m
• Swedish: malayalam (sv)
• Tamil: மலயாளம் (ta)
• Telugu: మలయాళ భాష (te)
• Thai: ภาษามาลายาลัม (th) (paasăa maalaayaalam)
• Walloon: Malayalam (wa)

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Malayalam terms

External links

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

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Dutch

Etymology

From Malayalam.

Pronunciation

• audio

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Proper noun

Malayalam n

1. Malayalam

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German

Etymology

From Malayalam.

Proper noun

Malayalam n

1. Malayalam

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Malay

Etymology

From Malayalam മലയാളം (malayāḷam).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [malajalam]
• Rhymes: -alam, -lam, -am

Proper noun

Malayalam

1. Malayalam