Blossoming in Malayalam

Blossoming as something plants do is പൂക്കല്‍ (pookkal) in Malayalam, the verbal noun of the verb for flowering. It has a doubled k, so say pook-kal and let the first part stay long. Gardeners, farmers and poets all use it for the moment a tree comes into flower.

Most common translation

പൂക്കല്‍ (pookkal)

Flowering, blossoming.

മാവിന്റെ പൂക്കല്‍ ഈ വർഷം നേരത്തെയായി.

maavinte pookkal ee varsham nerattheyaayi.

The mango tree's flowering came early this year.

All Malayalam words for “blossoming”

പൂക്കല്‍ (pookkal) is the literal flowering. വികാസം (vikaasam) is the word for blossoming in the figurative sense of growth, unfolding and development, as in a child's talent or an economy.

Common questions

How do you say blossoming in Malayalam?

For flowers it is പൂക്കല്‍ (pookkal); for a person or a project blossoming it is വികാസം (vikaasam).

Which one goes with a career?

വികാസം (vikaasam), because it means expansion and development. Using the flowering word there would sound like you are describing an actual plant.