Anger in Malayalam
Anger has many names in Malayalam, and the standard written one here is ക്രോധം (krodham). It is strong, the anger of epics and editorials, pronounced kro-dham with a breathy dh. The casual spoken word Keralites use when they are cross is a different one, not among these options.
Anger, rage, fury, indignation.
ക്രോധം ഉപേക്ഷിക്കാൻ മുത്തശ്ശി ഉപദേശിച്ചു.
krodham upekshikkaan muthashi upadeshichu
Grandmother advised giving up anger.
All Malayalam words for “anger”
- ക്രോധം (krodham) — Anger, rage, fury, indignation.
- അരിശം (arisham) — Anger, wrath.
- ഉത്കടം (uthkadam) — Anger, fluid from the temples of a rogue elephant(in rut), excessiveness, intoxication.
- ചൊടിപ്പ് (chodipp) — Anger, rage, quickness.
- ദേഷ്യം (deshyam) — Anger.
- മന്യു (manyu) — Anger, grief, illness, pitiable condition.
- രോഷം (rosham) — Anger, wrath, fury.
- അമര്ഷം (amarsham) — Resentment, anger.
- കലമ്പല് (kalambal) — Quarrel, anger, clamour, uproar.
- എരിച്ചില് (erichil) — Burning, heat, (fig) anger, contempt.
- കടുംകോപം (kadumkopam) — Rage, violent, anger.
- ചാട്ടം (chaattam) — Leap, jumping, anger, haughtiness, arrogance, adventure.
- ദ്വേഷം (dwesham) — Animosity, spite, anger, hatred.
- മത്സരം (malsaram) — Competition, envy, spite, rivalry, quarrel, animosity, anger, arrogance, contest.
- വിറകൊള്ളുക (virakolluka) — Shiver, tremble (as from cold, anger, etc.).
- ശീലക്കേട് (sheelakked) — Bad habit, lack of practice or experience, bad manners, misconduct, anger, peevishness.
- സംരംഭം (samrambham) — Commencement, beginning, enterprise, endeavour, anger.
- ഉഗ്രകോപം (ugrakopam) — Rage, violent anger.
- താമസം (thaamasam) — Dark attributes such as anger, idiocy, etc., darkness, ignorance.
- ദേഷ്യമുള്ള (deshyamulla) — Angry, cross; feeling or showing anger.
- നിരമര്ഷ (niramarsha) — Having no anger, free from hatred or ill will.
- പ്രകോപന (prakopana) — Provocative, inciting, stirring, rousing to anger.
- മൊഞ്ച് (monch) — Face, grace, beauty, expression of anger.
- ശുണ്ഠി (shundi) — Habitual anger, hot temper, quick temper.
ക്രോധം (krodham) is anger in formal and literary use. അരിശം (arisham) is everyday irritation, അമര്ഷം (amarsham) is resentment that simmers, ഉഗ്രകോപം (ugrakopam) and കടുംകോപം (kadumkopam) are rage, എരിച്ചില് (erichil) is a burning sense of grievance, കലമ്പല് (kalambal) is noisy quarrelling, and ഉത്കടം (uthkadam) means excess and intoxication, with anger as a secondary sense.
Common questions
How do you say anger in Malayalam?
ക്രോധം (krodham) is the standard word for anger in writing; for mild everyday annoyance Malayalis say അരിശം (arisham).
Which word means furious rage?
ഉഗ്രകോപം (ugrakopam) or കടുംകോപം (kadumkopam), both built from an intensifier plus the word for anger.