Cooking in Malayalam
Cooking is പാചകം (pajakam) in Malayalam in formal usage, the word also tied to fire and to digestion. In kitchen talk people are more likely to use വെപ്പ് (vepp), which covers kitchen work and cooking.
Most common translation
Cooking, fire, digestive enzyme.
അമ്മയ്ക്ക് പാചകം വലിയ ഇഷ്ടമാണ്.
ammaykku pajakam valiya ishtamaanu.
Mother loves cooking very much.
All Malayalam words for “cooking”
- പാചകം (pajakam) — Cooking, fire, digestive enzyme.
- വെപ്പ് (vepp) — Placing, construction, building, installing, planting, kitchen work, cooking.
- അവിയല് (aviyal) — Curry made by cooking mixed vegetables.
- എണ്ണ (enna) — Oil, cooking oil, any greasy liquid such as coconut oil.
- കടച്ചക്ക (kadachakka) — A kind of fruit used in cooking, bread-fruit.
- കലം (kalam) — Pot. The round cooking pot of clay or metal.
- പച്ചക്കറി (pachakkari) — Vegetable. Vegetables in general, the fresh produce used for cooking.
- പാല് (paalu) — Milk, the white liquid from a cow or from a mother, used in tea and cooking.
- പാൽ (paal) — Milk, the white liquid from cows or goats, used as a drink and in cooking.
- പുഴുക്ക് (puzhukku) — Vegetable preparation made by cooking (stewing) banana, tubers, yam, jack fruit, etc.
- മടപ്പുര (madappura) — Place of cooking (food offerings to a deity or royal food), kitchen.
- സവാള (savala) — Onion. The big onion used in cooking; the small shallot is cheriya ulli.
- സ്പൂൺ (spoon) — Spoon. The small eating or stirring spoon; a cooking ladle is thavi.
പാചകം (pajakam) is formal and Sanskritic; വെപ്പ് (vepp) is the everyday word for the work of cooking.
Common questions
How do you say cooking in Malayalam?
പാചകം (pajakam) is the formal word, and വെപ്പ് (vepp) is what is said about kitchen work.
What is a cooking pot called?
A cooking pot of clay or metal is കലം (kalam).