Colour in Malayalam
Colour is നിറം (niram) in Malayalam, the plain everyday word, used of the colour of clothes, walls, skin and fruit. It also carries older senses of lustre and goodness.
Most common translation
Colour, lustre, respect, goodness.
ഈ ചുമരിന്റെ നിറം എനിക്ക് ഇഷ്ടമാണ്.
ee chumarinte niram enikku ishtamaanu.
I like the color of this wall.
All Malayalam words for “colour”
- നിറം (niram) — Colour, lustre, respect, goodness.
- വര്ണ്ണം (varnnam) — Colour, paint, pigment, caste, letter, flattery, decoration, vermilion, fragrant ointment, a term in music.
- രംഗം (ramgam) — Stage, dais, platform, theatre stage, assembly, battlefield, colour, white lead (tin), dance, amusement, entertainment.
- രുചി (ruchi) — Taste, relish, interest, appetite, joy, lustre, colour, ray.
- വര്ത്തിക (varthika) — Painting brush, paint, colour, lamp-wick.
- അംഗാരം (amgaram) — Hot(burning), coal, burning charcoal, carbon, red colour, the planet Mars.
- അഗ്നിവര്ണ്ണം (agnivarnnam) — Having the colour of fire, a kind of foreign liquor (brandy).
- അരുണം (arunam) — Red colour.
- ആകാശനിലിമ (akashanilima) — Sky-blue colour.
- ഓറഞ്ച് (oranj) — Orange. The citrus fruit; the colour orange is called oranj niram.
- കഷായം (kashayam) — Medicinal decoction (Ayurveda), juice or gum of trees, red colour.
- ചര്മ്മകാന്തി (charmmakaanthi) — Complexion, colour of skin.
- ചാരനിറം (chaaraniram) — Grey, the colour of ash, between black and white.
- ചുവപ്പ് (chuvappu) — Red, the colour red; also used before a noun to mean red.
- ചോര (chora) — Blood, red colour.
- നിറം പോകുക (niram pokuka) — Lose colour.
- നീല (neela) — Blue, the colour blue.
- നീലിമ (neelima) — Blue or dark colour.
- പച്ച (pacha) — Green, the colour green; also unripe.
- പിങ്ക് (pinku) — Pink, a light red colour, the colour of a rose petal.
- പുകനിറം (pukaniram) — Colour of smoke, faint or dim colour.
- മഞ്ഞ (manja) — Yellow, having the colour of turmeric; yellow colour.
- റോസാപ്പൂവ് (rosaappoovu) — Rose; the rose flower, the pinkish red colour of it; in English rose is also the past form of rise.
- വയലറ്റ് (vayalattu) — Purple, a violet colour between red and blue.
- വെളുപ്പ് (veluppu) — White, the colour of milk and clean cloth.
- വെള്ളി (velli) — Silver; the white precious metal used for ornaments and coins, the shiny grey colour of it; the same word also means Friday.
- ഹരിതം (haritham) — Green colour.
- ഹരിതകം (harithakam) — Chlorophyll, chlorine, green colour of leaves, lion.
വര്ണ്ണം (varnnam) is the formal word for colour or pigment and also means caste and letter, while ചാരനിറം (chaaraniram) is the particular colour grey.
Common questions
How do you say colour in Malayalam?
നിറം (niram) is the everyday word for colour.
When is varnnam used?
വര്ണ്ണം (varnnam) suits formal and literary writing, and also means paint or pigment.