Air in Malayalam
The words for air itself on this page are literary ones: ആശുഗന് (aashugan) means air or wind and belongs to poetry more than to conversation. Everyday Malayalam usually talks about air indirectly, through the weather, the temperature or travel through the sky.
Most common translation
Air, wind.
ആശുഗൻ വീശിയപ്പോൾ ഇലകൾ പറന്നു.
aashugan veeshiyappol ilakal parannu.
When the wind blew, the leaves flew about.
All Malayalam words for “air”
- ആശുഗന് (aashugan) — Air, wind.
- മാരുതന് (maaruthan) — Air, wind.
- ആശുഗം (aashugam) — Arrow, air, bird.
- മാരുതം (maarutham) — Wind, air, oxygen, breathing.
- ഉഗ്രം (ugram) — That which is strong, fierce or powerful; air.
- ശ്വസനം (shwasanam) — Breathing, inhalation and exhalation, breath, air.
- ആകാശചാരി (aakaashachaari) — One who travels in the air, one of the gods, planet, star, bird, air-traveller.
- ആകാശയാനം (aakaashayaanam) — Aeroplane, journey by air.
- കാലാവസ്ഥ (kaalaavastha) — Weather, the state of the air and sky at a place; rain, heat and wind together. In everyday speech it also covers climate; climate; the usual weather of a place over a long period. The same word also serves for day to day weather.
- ജനൽ (janal) — Window, the opening in a wall that lets in light and air.
- താപനില (thaapanila) — Temperature; the degree of heat or cold of the air, water or the body.
- പകല്ക്കിനാവ് (pakalkkinaav) — Day-dream, fancy, 'building castles in the air'.
- പറക്കുക (parakkuka) — Fly; to move through the air, to travel by plane; the insect called a fly is eecha.
- ഫാൻ (phaan) — Fan, the machine that blows air to cool a room, a ceiling fan.
- മനോരാജ്യം (manorajyam) — Dream world, world of imagination, castles in the air, reverie.
- വ്യോമസേന (vyomasena) — Air Force, force who fight in or from the sky.
ആശുഗന് and ആശുഗം are poetic; കാലാവസ്ഥ (kaalaavastha) is weather, താപനില is temperature, and ആകാശയാനം is a journey by air.
Common questions
How do you say air in Malayalam?
The word listed here is ആശുഗന് (aashugan), air or wind, which has a literary flavour.
How do you talk about air travel?
With ആകാശയാനം (aakaashayaanam) for a journey by air, or the verb പറക്കുക (parakkuka), to fly.