Cow in Malayalam
The cow kept for milk is പശു (pashu) in Malayalam, two short syllables, pa-shu. Farmers, dairies and schoolbooks all use it. A bull goes by another word.
Most common translation
Cow. The cow kept for milk; a bull is kaala.
പശു പാൽ തരുന്നു.
pashu pal tharunnu.
The cow gives milk.
All Malayalam words for “cow”
- പശു (pashu) — Cow. The cow kept for milk; a bull is kaala.
- പാടല (padala) — Durga, cow, the Lodh tree.
- ജഗതി (jagathi) — World, earth, people, cow.
- മൃഗം (mrigam) — Animal, deer, cow, hunting, musk, the dark shade in the moon, the month of Makaram, a sign of the Zodiac (Capricornus), enquiry.
- കന്നുകാലി (kannukaali) — Cattle (buffalo, cow etc.).
- ഗോശാല (goshaala) — Cattle shed, cow shed.
- പാല് (paalu) — Milk, the white liquid from a cow or from a mother, used in tea and cooking.
- പീച്ചുക (peechuka) — Squirt, syringe, stagger, milk a cow, goat, etc.
പശു (pashu) is the cow itself, കന്നുകാലി (kannukaali) is cattle as a group, പാല് (paalu) is the milk, and ജഗതി (jagathi), മൃഗം (mrigam) and പാടല (padala) list cow only among several older and poetic meanings.
Common questions
How do you say cow in Malayalam?
പശു (pashu), the everyday word for a cow.
What is the word for cattle in general?
കന്നുകാലി (kannukaali), covering cows, buffaloes and the like.