Adversity in Malayalam
Adversity as a bad patch in life is ദുരവസ്ഥ (duravastha), literally a difficult state of affairs, and it is the most usable of the options in modern prose. Writers apply it to poverty, illness and reversals of fortune. The opening dur is the Sanskritic prefix for bad.
Difficult situation, misfortune, adversity.
മഴക്കാലത്ത് വഴിയുടെ ദുരവസ്ഥ കണ്ടോ?
mazhakkaalathu vazhiyude duravastha kando?
Have you seen the sorry state of the road in the rainy season?
All Malayalam words for “adversity”
- ദുരവസ്ഥ (duravastha) — Difficult situation, misfortune, adversity.
- കാലക്കേട് (kalakkedu) — Misfortune, ill- luck, adversity.
- കാലദോഷം (kaaladosham) — Misfortune, ill-luck, adversity.
- ദുരിതം (duritham) — Misery, grief, adversity.
- ദൈവദോഷം (daivadosham) — Misfortune caused by divine influence, misfortune, adversity, calamity, wrath of God.
- മുസീവത്ത് (museevath) — (Arab.) danger, misfortune, adversity, misery.
കാലക്കേട് (kalakkedu) and കാലദോഷം (kaaladosham) frame adversity as ill luck, ദൈവദോഷം (daivadosham) blames divine displeasure, ദുരിതം (duritham) stresses misery and grief, and മുസീവത്ത് (museevath) is an Arabic loan common in Muslim speech.
Common questions
How do you say adversity in Malayalam?
ദുരവസ്ഥ (duravastha), a hard or distressed condition.
Which word blames fate?
കാലദോഷം (kaaladosham) points to bad times, and ദൈവദോഷം (daivadosham) to divine displeasure.