Brahmin in Malayalam
Malayalam words whose English meaning includes “brahmin”:
- അഗ്നിഹോത്രി (agnihothri) — A brahmin who performs the yaga Agni-hotram, brahmin.
- അന്തണന് (anthanan) — Brahmin, a pure person.
- ഇല്ലം (illam) — House esp, the house of a Nampoodiri (Brahmin).
- തോലിടുക (tholiduka) — Cover with leather, manure with leaves, wear a satrap of leather (of antelope) by Brahmin boys at the time of wearing the sacred thread.
- പോറ്റി (potti) — Protector, a Tulu Brahmin, a member of a sect of Kerala Brahmins.
- മഠം (madam) — Monastery, convent, nunnery, house of a Brahmin, school for teaching the Vedas (holy scriptures), ancient Gurukula.