Coloured in Malayalam
None of the words gathered here is the plain Malayalam for coloured. The nearest is പീത (peetha), an adjective that specifically means yellow-coloured, and it belongs to written and literary Malayalam rather than to conversation. Writers use it of cloth, flowers and complexion.
Yellow coloured, drunk, soaked in water.
പീതമായ പൂക്കൾ പൂന്തോട്ടത്തിൽ വിരിഞ്ഞു.
peethamaaya pookkal poonthottathil virinju
Yellow flowers bloomed in the garden.
All Malayalam words for “coloured”
- പീത (peetha) — Yellow coloured, drunk, soaked in water.
- ത്രിവര്ണ്ണ (thrivarnna) — Tri- coloured, having three colours.
- പൂവ് (poovu) — Flower, the coloured bloom of a plant, a blossom.
- സിന്ദൂരം (sindooram) — Vermilion, coloured powder, applied on the forehead by women in India esp. by married women, mineral preparation by calcination.
ത്രിവര്ണ്ണ (thrivarnna) means three-coloured and is the word used of a tricolour flag, while സിന്ദൂരം (sindooram) is not an adjective at all but vermilion, the red powder worn on the forehead. Treat all three as narrow colour words rather than a general translation of coloured.
Common questions
How do you say coloured in Malayalam?
There is no single everyday word among these options; the closest is പീത (peetha), which means yellow-coloured.
Which of these words would describe a flag?
ത്രിവര്ണ്ണ (thrivarnna), the three-coloured one, which is the usual word for a tricolour.