Animals in Malayalam
Animals, especially four-footed beasts, are മൃഗങ്ങൾ (mrugangal) in Malayalam, and the word also serves for livestock. Zoo signs and school textbooks use it. Strip the plural ending and you have one animal.
Most common translation
Animals, beasts and four footed creatures other than human beings; also livestock.
കാട്ടിൽ പല മൃഗങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ട്.
kaattil pala mrugangal undu.
There are many animals in the forest.
All Malayalam words for “animals”
- മൃഗങ്ങൾ (mrugangal) — Animals, beasts and four footed creatures other than human beings; also livestock.
- ഉപസരം (upasaram) — Mating, child-birth or first pregnancy among animals.
- ഏറുമാടം (earumadam) — Hut on stakes on top of trees (to watch wild animals etc.).
- കരയുക (karyuka) — Weep, cry, cry as animals do.
- കർഷകൻ (karshakan) — Farmer. A person who grows crops or raises animals; cultivator.
- ജന്തുലോകം (janthulokam) — Animal world, all kinds of animals.
- തടുക്കുക (thadukkuka) — Obstruct, hinder, stop, mate (said of animals).
- മൃഗവര്ഗ്ഗം (mrigavarggam) — Animals as a class, deer as a class.
- ലോകം (lokam) — Earth, world, people, a particular class (eg. world of animals, world of newspapers), territory, view.
- ശരീരങ്ങൾ (shareerangal) — Bodies; the physical forms of people or animals; organized groups are called sanghadanakal.
ജന്തുലോകം (janthulokam) is the animal world as a whole, കർഷകൻ (karshakan) is the farmer who raises them, and ഉപസരം (upasaram), കരയുക (karyuka), തടുക്കുക (thadukkuka) and ഏറുമാടം (earumadam) come in through definitions about mating, crying, and watching for wild animals.
Common questions
How do you say animals in Malayalam?
മൃഗങ്ങൾ (mrugangal).
How do you say the animal kingdom?
ജന്തുലോകം (janthulokam), the world of all kinds of animals.