Bank in Malayalam
The bank of a river is തീരം (theeram), which also serves for a shore or coastline. It is a familiar, slightly poetic word, thee-ram, used in place names and in song. The financial bank is a borrowed word, and the vocabulary around it is borrowed too.
Most common translation
Bank (of a river etc.), shore.
ഞങ്ങള് പുഴയുടെ തീരത്ത് ഇരുന്നു.
njangal puzhayude theerathu irunnu.
We sat on the bank of the river.
All Malayalam words for “bank”
- തീരം (theeram) — Bank (of a river etc.), shore.
- കര (kara) — Shore, bank, land, part of a village, border line of a cloth dhoti.
- ഓരം (oram) — Margin, side, edge, border, bank, coast.
- അക്കൗണ്ട് (akkaunt) — Account, a bank or online account in a person's name; a record of money is also called kanakku.
- ഇക്കര (ikkara) — This shore, this bank, proximal shore.
- കണക്കുകൾ (kanakkukal) — Accounts; financial records, reckonings of money received and spent. A bank or online account is called akkaundu.
- കാർഡ് (kaard) — Cards, a card; a printed or plastic card such as a bank card or a greeting card; card, a small stiff piece of paper or plastic such as a bank card or a greeting card.
- ഗവർണർ (gavarnar) — Governor; the head of a state appointed by the central government, or the head of a bank or institution.
- തിട്ട (thitta) — Raised bank, sand- hill, platform.
- തീരദേശം (theeradesham) — Coastal area, area along the bank of a river.
- പുഴക്കടവ് (puzhakkadavu) — Bathing ghat or landing place on the river bank.
- പുഴയോരം (puzhayoram) — Bank of a river.
- പൊഴി (pozhi) — Sand bank between the sea and back waters (which disappears during monsoon), furrow for sowing seed in the ploughed field, groove.
- ബാങ്ക് (baanku) — Bank. A place that keeps and lends money.
- മണൽ (manal) — Sand. The fine sand of a river bank or beach.
- വായ്പ (vaaypa) — Loan, money borrowed and to be repaid, credit taken from a bank.
- സേവനങ്ങൾ (sevanangal) — Services, work or facilities provided to people, as by a bank, a hospital or an office.
തീരം is a riverbank or shore, കര (kara) is the land side or bank, ഓരം (oram) is a margin or edge, and അക്കൗണ്ട് (akkaunt) and വായ്പ (vaaypa) belong to the banking sense, account and loan.
Common questions
How do you say bank in Malayalam?
തീരം (theeram) for a riverbank or shore.
What about a bank account?
That is അക്കൗണ്ട് (akkaunt), and a loan taken from a bank is വായ്പ (vaaypa).