Ancestral in Malayalam
Ancestral is bound up with തറവാട് (tharavaad), the Malayalam word for the ancestral family house and the family itself. It is said tha-ra-vaad. In Kerala it carries real weight, since the old matrilineal joint family was organised around such a house.
(ancestral) matriarchal family, ancestral family, old or respectable family or household.
ഞങ്ങളുടെ തറവാട് വളരെ പഴയതാണ്.
njangalude tharavaad valare pazhayathaan.
Our ancestral home is very old.
All Malayalam words for “ancestral”
- തറവാട് (tharavaad) — (ancestral) matriarchal family, ancestral family, old or respectable family or household.
- അമ്മാത്ത് (ammathu) — Mother's ancestral home.
തറവാട് (tharavaad) is the ancestral home and lineage; അമ്മാത്ത് (ammathu) is narrower, the ancestral house on the mother's side, which mattered in that matrilineal system.
Common questions
How do you say ancestral in Malayalam?
The key word is തറവാട് (tharavaad), the ancestral family home and household.
What is the difference from അമ്മാത്ത്?
അമ്മാത്ത് points specifically to the mother's ancestral house, where children of a matrilineal family belonged; തറവാട് is the general term.