Boundary in Malayalam
അതിര് (athiru) is the boundary between two pieces of land, and by extension any limit or border. Farmers, land records and arguments between neighbours all use it. The final u is very short, a-thi-ru, and the th is the soft dental one.
Boundary, limit, border.
പറമ്പിന്റെ അതിര് അച്ഛൻ കാണിച്ചുതന്നു.
parambinte athiru achchan kaanichuthannu
Father showed me the boundary of the plot.
All Malayalam words for “boundary”
- അതിര് (athiru) — Boundary, limit, border.
- എലുക (eluka) — Boundary, delimitation.
- പരിധി (paridhi) — Limit, boundary, range, circumference, enclosure, horizon, covering, chariot wheel.
- വരമ്പ് (varambu) — Small ridge in fields, boundary.
- സീമ (seema) — Limit, boundary, border, extent.
- പരിസരം (parisaram) — Surroundings, environment, boundary, neighbourhood, situation, position.
- അതിരിടുക (athiriduka) — Mark off, mark boundary, limit.
- ചുമരുകൾ (chumarukal) — Walls, the walls of a room or building; an outer boundary wall is mathil.
- ഭൂപരിധി (bhooparithi) — Boundary or limit of the earth, ceiling on land, limit of the area of land that a person can possess.
athiru is the boundary line itself and athiriduka is to mark one out; paridhi is a limit or circumference, varambu is the low ridge that divides paddy fields, and parisaram is the surrounding area rather than its edge.
Common questions
How do you say boundary in Malayalam?
Boundary is അതിര് (athiru).
Is athiru used for the boundary of a country?
It can be, as a general word for a border, though official and political language prefers the longer forms built on paridhi and related terms.