Convent in Malayalam
Kerala has had convents for centuries, and the Malayalam word for one is കന്യകാമഠം (kanyakaamadam), a compound joining the word for a maiden with the word for a monastic house. The term is well understood, though in daily speech many people simply say the English word. Say kan-ya-kaa-ma-dam with the long aa in the middle.
Convent.
പെൺകുട്ടികൾ കന്യകാമഠം സന്ദർശിച്ചു മടങ്ങി.
penkuttikal kanyakaamadam sandarshichu madangi.
The girls visited the convent and returned.
All Malayalam words for “convent”
- കന്യകാമഠം (kanyakaamadam) — Convent.
- മഠം (madam) — Monastery, convent, nunnery, house of a Brahmin, school for teaching the Vedas (holy scriptures), ancient Gurukula.
കന്യകാമഠം (kanyakaamadam) is a convent for nuns specifically. മഠം (madam) is the broader word for any monastery or religious house, Hindu ones included, and also names the dwelling of a Brahmin and the old Vedic school.
Common questions
How do you say convent in Malayalam?
Say കന്യകാമഠം (kanyakaamadam), literally the house of maidens, meaning a nunnery.
Does മഠം (madam) mean the same thing?
Not exactly. It is any monastic establishment, so without more context a reader will not know whether you mean a Christian convent or a Hindu monastery.