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

തീരം (theeram)

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 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).