Child in Malayalam

All Malayalam words for “child”

• കുട്ടി (kutti) — Child, a young boy or girl; also a son or daughter; kid, a child, a young boy or girl.
• കുരുന്ന്‌ (kurunnu) — New shoot or sprout, tender age, child, whiteness.
• അരുമകുഞ്ഞ് (arumakunju) — Darling child.
• കസിൻ (kasin) — Cousin, the child of one's uncle or aunt, in Kerala speech the English word is used as it is.
• കുഞ്ഞ് (kunju) — Baby, a very small child, an infant.
• കുട്ടികൾ (kuttikal) — Children, more than one child, young boys and girls; also one's own sons and daughters; kids, children, young boys and girls.
• ചിണുക്കം (chinukkam) — Whimpering, obstinate crying (of a child).
• താച്ചി (thachi) — Foster- mother, mother's mother, step- mother, woman who breast feeds another's child.
• ദത്തെടുത്ത (dattheduttha) — Adopted, taken in legally as one's own child; also taken up as one's own.
• പെൺകുട്ടി (penkutti) — Girl, a female child or a young woman.
• പേരിടല്‍ (peridal) — Christening, baptism, the ceremony of giving a name to a child.
• പ്രജനനം (prajananam) — Reproduction, pregnancy, child birth, procreation.
• മകൻ (makan) — Son, a male child of a parent, a boy of the family.
• മകൾ (makal) — Daughter, a female child of a parent, a girl of the family.

കുരുന്ന്‌ (kurunnu) is a tender, literary word for a very young child and കുഞ്ഞ് (kunju) means a baby, while മകൻ (makan) and മകൾ (makal) specify a son and a daughter.