Chapter in Malayalam
A chapter of a book is അദ്ധ്യായം (adhyayam). The dhy in the middle is a single cluster: adh-yaa-yam. It is the word printed at the head of each chapter in Malayalam books, and it also means a lesson.
Most common translation
Chapter, lesson, portion of a book.
ഞാൻ ആദ്യത്തെ അദ്ധ്യായം വായിച്ചു.
njaan aadyathe adhyayam vaayichu.
I read the first chapter.
All Malayalam words for “chapter”
- അദ്ധ്യായം (adhyayam) — Chapter, lesson, portion of a book.
- പ്രകരണം (prakaranam) — Chapter, section, occasion, opportunity, treatise esp. on a technical one, one of the ten kinds of stage plays.
- അധികാരം (adhikaram) — Power authority, responsibility, title, claim, chapter, department, paragraph.
- ഉല്ലാസം (ullasam) — Joy, pleasure, light, development, delight, chapter.
- പ്രകാശം (prakasham) — Light, clearness, lustre, commentary, development, expansion, chapter, mirror, knowledge, what a character in a play says loudly for everyone to hear (not as an 'aside').
- വര്ഗ്ഗം (varggam) — Class, caste, separate section, group, square (maths.), chapter.
- സര്ഗ്ഗം (sarggam) — Abandoning, redemption, character, conduct, nature, certainty, creation, chapter, canto.
അദ്ധ്യായം (adhyayam) is the everyday word for a chapter; സര്ഗ്ഗം (sarggam) is a canto in classical poetry; പ്രകരണം (prakaranam) is a section of a treatise; and അധികാരം (adhikaram), ഉല്ലാസം (ullasam), പ്രകാശം (prakasham) and വര്ഗ്ഗം (varggam) list chapter only as one minor sense among many.
Common questions
What is the Malayalam word for chapter?
Chapter is അദ്ധ്യായം (adhyayam).
Which word fits a chapter of a long poem?
സര്ഗ്ഗം (sarggam) is the traditional term for a canto, where അദ്ധ്യായം (adhyayam) suits prose.