Dance in Malayalam

All Malayalam words for “dance”

• നൃത്തം (nritham) — One of the stage (visual) arts, dance.
• തുള്ളുക (thulluka) — Dance, leap, skip, shiver, tremble.
• നാട്യം (naatyam) — Dance, dancing accompanied by playing on instruments, acting, pretension.
• നൃത്തം ചെയ്യുക (nritham cheyyuka) — Dance, to move the body to music; to perform a dance.
• രൂപകം (roopakam) — Drama, dance, a figure of speech (metaphor), characteristic, form, feature, shape, figure, symbol.
• ആടുക (aduka) — Shake, move, dance, act.
• രംഗം (ramgam) — Stage, dais, platform, theatre stage, assembly, battlefield, colour, white lead (tin), dance, amusement, entertainment.
• അഷ്ടകലാശം (ashtakalasham) — A form of dance in Kathakali.
• കല (kala) — Art, painting, music, dance and other creative work; also a skill done beautifully.
• കലകൾ (kalakal) — Arts, the fine arts such as music, dance and painting; also the arts as a field of study.
• കലാകാരന്മാർ (kalaakaaranmaar) — Artists. People who create art such as painting, music, dance or acting.
• മോഹിനിയാട്ടം (mohiniyaattam) — A dance form in Kerala formerly performed by Devadasis (women dedicated to temple service), a kind of nautch dance.
• രംഗപീഠം (ramgapeedam) — Dance stage, stage.
• ലാസ്യം (laasyam) — Dance depicting mainly a romantic mood.

naatyam takes in dance together with music and acting, thulluka is a leaping, shaking movement, aduka a general word for moving or acting, while roopakam and ramgam point towards drama and the stage.