Cloth in Malayalam

All Malayalam words for “cloth”

• തുണി (thuni) — Cloth. Woven fabric; a piece of material, also clothes in general.
• തുകില്‍ (thukil) — Cloth, dress, sleep.
• പുട (puda) — Cloth, cloth to wear.
• പേശി (peshi) — Cloth.
• അംബരം (ambaram) — Sky, cloth.
• ആട (aada) — Costume, apparel, cloth, garment.
• അങ്കവസ്ത്രം (ankavasthram) — Clothes (dress) covering the upper part of the body, upper cloth, shawl.
• ഉത്തരിയം (uthariyam) — The upper cloth, scapular, shawl.
• കര (kara) — Shore, bank, land, part of a village, border line of a cloth dhoti.
• ജീര്‍ണ്ണവസ്ത്രം (jeernnavasthram) — Tattered cloth, rags.
• തട്ടം (thattam) — Platter or plate, veil (worn by Muslim women), long cloth tied round the waist, pond, lake.
• തോര്‍ത്ത് (thorth) — Cloth used for wiping water, towel.
• തോർത്ത് (thorthu) — Towel. A cloth used to dry the body after a bath.
• നേരിയത് (neriyath) — Fine cloth.
• പണക്കിഴി (panakkizhi) — Purse, money bag, money tied in a piece of cloth or bag, prize in the form of money.
• പല്ലവം (pallavam) — Sprout, shoot, bud, dalliance, coquetry, frailty, the fringe of cloth.
• പാളം (palam) — A bar of metal, rail, strip of cloth.
• പുടക (pudaka) — Double cloth worn by women, wedding cloth or saree.
• പുടമുറി (pudamuri) — Piece of cloth about nine yards, presenting cloth to the bride by the groom (is a part of the wedding ceremony).
• പുടവ (pudava) — Cloth to wear (usually worn by women), saree.
• പുത (putha) — (root)wrap over, cover the body with cloth.
• പുതപ്പിക്കുക (puthappikkuka) — Wrap cloth over the body, cover body with cloth.
• പുതയ്ക്കുക (puthaykkuka) — Wrap cloth over the body (in winter) to keep it warm.
• പൊന്നാട (ponnada) — Cloth woven with golden thread, such cloth presented to a person as an honour, golden shawl.
• മടി (madi) — Laziness, idleness. hesitation, shyness, part of the cloth hanging from the girdle, the lap.
• മുറി (muri) — Piece, fragment, slice, room, chamber, wound, loin cloth worm by woman, a village.
• വെളുപ്പ് (veluppu) — White, the colour of milk and clean cloth.
• സാരി (saari) — Saree. A long cloth draped around the body by women; sari.

തുണി (thuni) is everyday cloth, ആട (aada) and പുട (puda) are garment-like and more literary, തുകില്‍ (thukil) is poetic, and തോർത്ത് (thorthu) is the thin towel used after a bath.