Crowd in Malayalam
A crowd of people is ആള്ക്കൂട്ടം (aalkkoottam), literally a gathering of persons, and it is the word you hear on the news and in the street. Hold the double kk a fraction longer than a single k. Depending on tone it can tip over into mob.
Crowd, mob, people.
കടയുടെ മുന്നില് വലിയ ആള്ക്കൂട്ടം ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നു.
kadayude munnil valiya aalkkoottam undayirunnu.
There was a big crowd in front of the shop.
All Malayalam words for “crowd”
- ആള്ക്കൂട്ടം (aalkkoottam) — Crowd, mob, people.
- ജനസമൂഹം (janasamooham) — Crowd, assembly of people.
- ജനാവലി (janaavali) — Crowd, the public.
- പോലം (polam) — Crowd, magnitude.
- തിക്കുക (thikkuka) — Press forward, crowd, elbow each other.
- കൂട്ടം (koottam) — Assembly, multitude, crowd, caste, community, discussion, argument.
- ചന്ത (chantha) — Market, bazaar, busy place, crowd, (colloq.) uncivilized people.
- ചേരി (cheri) — Street, village, hut, slum, a party or faction, crowd, one of the two sides (blocs) in a dispute.
- സമൂഹം (samooham) — Community, a group, collection, crowd, multitude.
- ചന്തക്കൂട്ടം (chanthakkoottam) — The crowd at the market place.
- പിണ്ഡം (pindam) — Mass; the quantity of matter in a body, as used in science; mass in the sense of a crowd is bahujanam and the church service is kurbaana.
- പുരുഷാരം (purusharam) — A crowd or multitude of people.
ആള്ക്കൂട്ടം (aalkkoottam) is the everyday crowd, കൂട്ടം (koottam) any group or bunch, ജനസമൂഹം (janasamooham) and ജനാവലി (janaavali) formal words for the assembled public, and ചന്തക്കൂട്ടം (chanthakkoottam) the particular crowd at a market.
Common questions
How do you say crowd in Malayalam?
Crowd is ആള്ക്കൂട്ടം (aalkkoottam).
Does it also mean mob?
It can. With an angry crowd ആള്ക്കൂട്ടം (aalkkoottam) shades into mob, so context does the work.