Belonging in Malayalam
Belonging in the sense of whose something is turns up in Malayalam as ആരുടെ (aarude), the possessive form of who. Malayalam marks belonging with an ending on the owner rather than with a separate word, and ude is that ending. Three short syllables, aa-ru-de.
Whose, belonging to which person.
ഇത് ആരുടെ കുടയാണ്?
ithu aarude kudayaanu
Whose umbrella is this?
All Malayalam words for “belonging”
- ആരുടെ (aarude) — Whose, belonging to which person.
- അംഗങ്ങൾ (angangal) — Members, the people belonging to a group or a family.
- അറബി (arabi) — Arab, person belonging to arabia, the language Arabic.
- ആഫ്രിക്കൻ (aaphrikkan) — African, belonging to Africa, its countries or its people.
- ഇറ്റാലിയൻ (ittaaliyan) — Italian. Belonging to Italy; a person from Italy or the language spoken there.
- ഉടയ (udaya) — Belonging to, owning.
- ഏഷ്യൻ (eshyan) — Asian; of or from Asia, a person belonging to an Asian country.
- കൊളോണിയൽ (koloniyal) — Colonial, belonging to or from the period of colonial rule.
- കോർപ്പറേറ്റ് (korpparettu) — Corporate; belonging to a large business company, of the business world.
- ചരിത്രപരമായ (charithraparamaaya) — Historical; relating to history, belonging to the past, dealing with past events.
- തെക്കൻ (thekkan) — Southern, belonging to or lying in the south; of the southern side.
- പ്രാദേശിക (praadeshika) — Local, of a particular place, belonging to the neighbourhood; regional; belonging to a particular region or local area.
- പ്രൊഫഷണൽ (prophashanal) — Professional, belonging to a trained occupation; done to a trained standard; pro, a professional, somebody who does something for a living or with expert skill.
- മധ്യ (madhya) — Mid; middle, belonging to the middle part of a place, a time or a span.
- യഹൂദ (yahooda) — Jewish, belonging to the Jews or to Judaism; a Jewish man is yahoodan.
- വടക്കൻ (vadakkan) — Northern, belonging to or lying in the north; of the northern side.
- വിദേശ (videsha) — Foreign, belonging to another country, from abroad.
- വ്യക്തിപരമായ (vyakthiparamaaya) — Personal, belonging to one person, private; in everyday speech swakaarya is also used.
- സ്കോട്ടിഷ് (skottish) — Scottish, belonging to Scotland or its people.
- സ്വദേശി (swadeshi) — Native; a person born in a particular place, belonging to a place by birth; local or indigenous.
- സ്വന്തം (swantham) — Own, belonging to oneself, one's very own.
aarude asks whose, that is, to whom a thing belongs; the other entries use belonging to mean coming from a place or group, so aaphrikkan is African, eshyan Asian, koloniyal of the colonial period, and angangal the members belonging to a body.
Common questions
How do you say belonging in Malayalam?
Belonging, in the sense of whose, is ആരുടെ (aarude).
How does Malayalam show that something belongs to someone?
It adds the ending ude or its variants to the owner's name, so belonging is built into the noun instead of needing a separate word like of.