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) Cherokee: ᎹᎴᏯᎵ (Maleyali) Chinese: Mandarin: 馬拉雅拉姆語 (cmn), 马拉雅拉姆语 (cmn) (Mǎlāyǎlāmǔ-yǔ) Croatian: malajalam (hr) jezik m. Czech: malajálamština (cs) f., malajalámský (cs) Danish: malayalam (da) Dhivehi: މަލަޔާޅަމް Dutch: Malayalam (nl) n. Esperanto: Malajala lingvo 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

Italian: lingua malayalam 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: bahasa Malayalam Malayalam: മലയാളം (ml) (malayāḷaṁ) Moksha: малаялам (malajalam) Norwegian: malayalam (no) Polish: malajalam (pl) m. Portuguese: malaiala (pt) Russian: малаялам (ru) (malajálam) m. Sanskrit: मलयाळम् (sa) Serbian: малајалам (sr) језик 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 (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Malayalam, mal

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Dutch

Etymology

From Malayalam.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Malayalam n.

1. Malayalam

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German

Etymology

From Malayalam.

Proper noun

Malayalam n.

1. Malayalam