Cold in Malayalam
Cold, in the sense of low temperature, is തണുപ്പ് (thanuppu) in Malayalam. It covers cold water, cold air and cold weather, and is the word people reach for first in conversation.
Most common translation
Cold. Coldness or chill; also cold weather.
രാത്രി നല്ല തണുപ്പ് ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു.
rathri nalla thanuppu undayirunnu.
It was very cold at night.
All Malayalam words for “cold”
- തണുപ്പ് (thanuppu) — Cold. Coldness or chill; also cold weather.
- ജലദോഷം (jaladosham) — Cold, catarrh.
- ഹിമം (himam) — Snow, cold, sandalwood, camphor, night, lotus, tin.
- തണുക്കുക (thanukkuka) — Grow cold, lose warmth, be chilly, feel relief, become calm or composed.
- താപനില (thaapanila) — Temperature; the degree of heat or cold of the air, water or the body.
- തോന്നുന്നു (thonnunnu) — Looks, appears, seems to be; seems, appears, gives the impression of being so; feels; seems, gives a feeling or impression, as when something feels cold or one feels happy.
- വിറകൊള്ളുക (virakolluka) — Shiver, tremble (as from cold, anger, etc.).
- ശൈത്യകാലം (shaithyakaalam) — Winter, cold season.
ജലദോഷം (jaladosham) is a cold in the head, the illness, while ഹിമം (himam) means snow and താപനില (thaapanila) is temperature.
Common questions
How do you say cold in Malayalam?
തണുപ്പ് (thanuppu) is the everyday word for cold.
What if I mean catching a cold?
That illness is ജലദോഷം (jaladosham), which is quite separate from cold weather.