City in Malayalam
City is പട്ടണം (pattanam), the ordinary word for a town or a city. Malayalam does not insist on the English distinction between the two, so pattanam covers both. Say pat-ta-nam.
Most common translation
Town, city.
ഞങ്ങളുടെ ഗ്രാമം ഇപ്പോള് പട്ടണം പോലെയായി.
njangalude graamam ippol pattanam poleyaayi.
Our village has now become like a town.
All Malayalam words for “city”
- പട്ടണം (pattanam) — Town, city.
- നഗരി (nagari) — City, capital.
- നഗര് (nagar) — Town, city.
- പുരി (puri) — Town, city, capital city, fort, house, body, king, river.
- പൂര് (poor) — Town, city.
- മന്ദിരം (mandhiram) — House, abode, temple, palace, city.
- ആഞ്ചലസ് (anchalas) — Angeles; the Malayalam spelling of the name Angeles, known mainly from Los Angeles, a city in California.
- കാശി (kashi) — The holy city of Kashi (Banaras)in North India.
- കോർപ്പറേഷൻ (korpparesan) — Corporation, a large company; in Kerala also the elected government of a big city, as in Kochi Corporation.
- ഗോപുരം (gopuram) — Storeyed building, gate tower, main gate of a temple or city.
- ചിക്കാഗോ (chikkaago) — Chicago, a large city in the United States, on the shore of Lake Michigan.
- നഗര (nagara) — Urban. Relating to a city or town rather than to the countryside.
- നഗരപ്രദക്ഷിണം (nagarapradakshinam) — Procession going round the city.
- പാരിസ് (paaris) — Paris; the capital city of France, known for the Eiffel Tower.
- മേയർ (meyar) — Mayor; the elected head of a city corporation.
- യോർക്ക് (york) — York, an English city, and the second part of the place name New York.
- ലണ്ടൻ (landan) — London, the capital city of England.
- ലോകനഗരം (lokanagaram) — Global city, the whole world taken as a single city.
- വാഷിംഗ്ടൺ (vaashingtan) — Washington, the capital city of the United States; also a state there.
- സാകേതം (saaketham) — The ancient city of Ayodhya.
നഗരി (nagari) and നഗര് (nagar) are the Sanskritic forms, പുരി (puri), പൂര് (poor) and മന്ദിരം (mandhiram) are literary and turn up in place names, and കോർപ്പറേഷൻ (korpparesan) is the elected government of a big city.
Common questions
How do you say city in Malayalam?
City is പട്ടണം (pattanam).
Which words for city appear in place names?
പുരി (puri) and നഗരി (nagari), both literary words for a city or capital.