Amazement in Malayalam
The word listed for amazement is സ്മയം (smayam), a Sanskritic term that also means pride and haughtiness. It is literary, so you would meet it in a poem rather than hear it in a shop.
Most common translation
Amazement, pride, haughtiness.
ആ കാഴ്ച കണ്ടപ്പോൾ സ്മയം തോന്നി.
aa kaazhcha kandappol smayam thonni.
Seeing that sight, amazement was felt.
Dictionary entry
- സ്മയം (smayam) — Amazement, pride, haughtiness.
സ്മയം (smayam) carries wonder and self-satisfied pride at once, which is why its tone depends so much on the sentence around it.
Common questions
How do you say amazement in Malayalam?
The word given here is സ്മയം (smayam), though it belongs to literary Malayalam rather than daily speech.
Why does one word mean both amazement and pride?
Both involve being struck by something. In സ്മയം (smayam) the self-regarding sense sits alongside the sense of wonder.