Apartment in Malayalam
An apartment is ഫ്ലാറ്റ് (phlaattu) in Malayalam, the borrowed word flat, which is what builders and city dwellers in Kochi or Kozhikode actually say. It means a set of rooms in a larger building used as one home. The spelling keeps the aspirated ph of the English f.
Most common translation
Apartment. A flat; a set of rooms in a larger building used as a home.
അവർ ഒരു ഫ്ലാറ്റിൽ താമസിക്കുന്നു.
avar oru phlaattil thaamasikkunnu.
They live in an apartment.
All Malayalam words for “apartment”
- ഫ്ലാറ്റ് (phlaattu) — Apartment. A flat; a set of rooms in a larger building used as a home.
- മച്ച് (mach) — Ceiling paved with planks, upper storey of a building, apartment, closet, arrogance, attic.
- ഉള്ളറ (ullara) — Inner apartment within a room, secret chamber.
മച്ച് (mach) is an older word for an upper storey or attic that can stretch to an apartment, and ഉള്ളറ (ullara) is an inner chamber within a room.
Common questions
How do you say apartment in Malayalam?
ഫ്ലാറ്റ് (phlaattu), the everyday word for a flat.
Which word names an inner room?
ഉള്ളറ (ullara), a secret or inner chamber inside a room.