Beggary in Malayalam
Malayalam here offers no neutral noun for beggary; the closest listed entry is the verb തെണ്ടിക്കുക (thendikkuka), which means to reduce somebody to beggary, to strip them of everything. It belongs to blunt spoken usage, often in a threat or in describing ruin brought on by debt or gambling.
Make one a beggar, reduce to beggary, rob one of everything, impoverish.
ആരെയും തെണ്ടിക്കുക വേണ്ട.
aareyum thendikkuka venda.
There is no need to reduce anyone to beggary.
All Malayalam words for “beggary”
- തെണ്ടിക്കുക (thendikkuka) — Make one a beggar, reduce to beggary, rob one of everything, impoverish.
- മൃതം (mritham) — One who is dead, death, corpse, poison, life of beggary.
തെണ്ടിക്കുക is a verb about driving a person into destitution, not a word for the state of beggary itself. മൃതം is mainly death or a corpse, and its gloss about a life of beggary is a stretched, literary use you should not rely on.
Common questions
How do you express beggary in Malayalam?
There is no plain noun in this list. The verb തെണ്ടിക്കുക (thendikkuka) means to reduce someone to beggary, so speakers describe the state with a verb instead.
Can mritham be used for a beggarly life?
Better not. മൃതം normally means dead, death or a corpse, and using it for poverty would confuse a listener.