Arm in Malayalam
In everyday Malayalam the arm and the hand share one word, കൈ (kai), covering the limb from shoulder to fingers. It is short and easy to say, rhyming with the English word eye. For the arm as a distinct body part, formal writing prefers bhujam.
Most common translation
Hand, the part of the body at the end of the arm, used for holding and working; arm, the limb from the shoulder to the hand, in everyday Malayalam the same word covers arm and hand.
കൈ നന്നായി കഴുകുക.
kai nannaayi kazhukuka.
Wash your hands well.
All Malayalam words for “arm”
- കൈ (kai) — Hand, the part of the body at the end of the arm, used for holding and working; arm, the limb from the shoulder to the hand, in everyday Malayalam the same word covers arm and hand.
- ഭുജം (bhujam) — Arm, branch, a side of a triangle, branch of a tree, trunk of an elephant.
- മുന്കൈ (munkai) — Fore arm, leadership, the upper hand, supremacy.
കൈ (kai) is the everyday term, ഭുജം (bhujam) the literary word for the arm proper, and മുന്കൈ (munkai) the forearm.
Common questions
How do you say arm in Malayalam?
കൈ (kai) in ordinary speech, or ഭുജം (bhujam) when a formal word for the arm is wanted.
What is the forearm called?
മുന്കൈ (munkai), the part between elbow and wrist.