Anniversary in Malayalam
വാര്ഷികം (vaarshikam) is the Malayalam for an anniversary and for the function held to mark one — a school announces its annual day with this word. It comes from the word for year. The first syllable is long and the r lightly rolled: vaar-shi-kam.
Anniversary, function celebrating anniversary.
സ്കൂളിന്റെ വാര്ഷികം അടുത്ത ആഴ്ച നടക്കും.
skoolinte vaarshikam aduthha aazhcha nadakkum.
The school anniversary will be held next week.
All Malayalam words for “anniversary”
- വാര്ഷികം (vaarshikam) — Anniversary, function celebrating anniversary.
- ആണ്ട് (aand) — Year, anniversary.
- ദശവാര്ഷികം (dashavaarshikam) — The day of completion of ten years, the tenth anniversary.
- ബലിയിടുക (baliyiduka) — Perform obsequies for the souls of departed forefather's, perform funeral rite, rites connected with death anniversary of close relatives.
- സപ്തതി (sapthathi) — Seventy, seventieth birth anniversary.
വാര്ഷികം (vaarshikam) is the general anniversary, ആണ്ട് (aand) the year itself and by extension a yearly remembrance, ദശവാര്ഷികം (dashavaarshikam) specifically the tenth, സപ്തതി (sapthathi) the seventieth birthday, and ബലിയിടുക (baliyiduka) the verb for performing death-anniversary rites.
Common questions
What is anniversary in Malayalam?
വാര്ഷികം (vaarshikam), used both for the date and for the celebration.
How do people refer to a death anniversary?
The rites are named by the verb ബലിയിടുക (baliyiduka), and the yearly occasion is linked with ആണ്ട് (aand).