Abnormality in Malayalam
The listed Malayalam word for abnormality is വികൃതി (vikrithi), which in modern speech is heard far more often as mischief, especially a child's. Its older and more technical range includes a deviation from the normal and even a symptom foretelling death. Context does all the work of telling the senses apart.
Abnormality, vicious attitude, symptom of death, mischief.
കുട്ടിയുടെ വികൃതി ഇന്ന് കൂടുതലാണ്.
kuttiyude vikrithi innu kooduthalaanu.
The child's mischief is worse today.
Dictionary entry
- വികൃതി (vikrithi) — Abnormality, vicious attitude, symptom of death, mischief.
Only this one option is given, so for a medical abnormality it has to carry a load that it shares with mischief and bad behaviour.
Common questions
How do you say abnormality in Malayalam?
വികൃതി (vikrithi) is the listed word, though a hearer may first take it to mean mischief.
Why does one word cover abnormality and mischief?
Both come from the idea of something altered or out of its proper state, and Malayalam kept the two senses under one form.