Customs in Malayalam
The customs of a community, its traditional practices, are ആചാരങ്ങൾ (aachaarangal). The ending ngal is the regular plural marker, so one custom becomes many simply by adding it. Customs in the airport sense is quite separate: ഘട്ടം (ghattam) carries customs house among its many meanings.
Customs, the traditional practices and usages of a community.
നാട്ടിലെ ആചാരങ്ങൾ ഇന്നും പാലിക്കുന്നു.
naattile aachaarangal innum paalikkunnu.
The customs of the village are still followed.
All Malayalam words for “customs”
- ആചാരങ്ങൾ (aachaarangal) — Customs, the traditional practices and usages of a community.
- ആചാരി (achari) — Following or observing customs.
- ഘട്ടം (ghattam) — Ghat, landing place, steps leading to a river, state, stage, occasion, customs house.
- യാഥാസ്ഥിതിക (yaathaasthithika) — Conservative, holding to old customs and resisting change; in politics, one against reform.
- ലോകമര്യാദ (lokamaryaada) — Customs and conventions, accepted manners and customs.
ആചാരങ്ങൾ (aachaarangal) are the practices themselves, ലോകമര്യാദ (lokamaryaada) the accepted manners that go with them, ആചാരി (achari) a person who keeps them, and യാഥാസ്ഥിതിക (yaathaasthithika) someone who clings to old ones and resists change.
Common questions
How do you say customs in Malayalam?
Customs, as traditional practices, is ആചാരങ്ങൾ (aachaarangal).
What do you call customs and conventions together?
ലോകമര്യാദ (lokamaryaada) covers accepted manners and conventions as a pair.