Dance in Malayalam
Malayalam words whose English meaning includes “dance”:
- അഷ്ടകലാശം (ashtakalasham) — A form of dance in Kathakali.
- ആടുക (aduka) — Shake, move, dance, act.
- തുള്ളുക (thulluka) — Dance, leap, skip, shiver, tremble.
- നാട്യം (naatyam) — Dance, dancing accompanied by playing on instruments, acting, pretension.
- നൃത്തം (nritham) — One of the stage (visual) arts, dance.
- മോഹിനിയാട്ടം (mohiniyaattam) — A dance form in Kerala formerly performed by Devadasis (women dedicated to temple service), a kind of nautch dance.
- രംഗം (ramgam) — Stage, dais, platform, theatre stage, assembly, battlefield, colour, white lead (tin), dance, amusement, entertainment.
- രംഗപീഠം (ramgapeedam) — Dance stage, stage.
- രൂപകം (roopakam) — Drama, dance, a figure of speech (metaphor), characteristic, form, feature, shape, figure, symbol.
- ലാസ്യം (laasyam) — Dance depicting mainly a romantic mood.