Dark in Malayalam
Dark as a colour word is ശ്യാമ (shyaama) in Malayalam, covering black, dark blue and shaded. It has a poetic flavour and is often applied to complexion and to rain clouds. Talk of a dark room works differently, through a verb.
Most common translation
Dark, black, dark blue, shady.
ശ്യാമ മേഘങ്ങൾ ആകാശത്ത് നിറഞ്ഞു.
shyaama meghangal aakaashathu niranju.
Dark clouds filled the sky.
All Malayalam words for “dark”
- ശ്യാമ (shyaama) — Dark, black, dark blue, shady.
- ഇരുട്ടറ (iruttara) — Dark cell, dungeon.
- ഇരുളുക (iruluka) — Grow dark, become dark, become black.
- കടുംപച്ചനിറം (kadumpachaniram) — Dark green, corbeau.
- കാര്മുകില് (karmukil) — Dark cloud.
- കാലന് (kalan) — Yama (personification of death), dark person, cripple, lame person.
- കാളരാത്രി (kalarathri) — Night before death, terribly dark night, terrible night.
- തപ്പിനോക്കുക (thappinokkuka) — Feel with the hand, grope (in the dark).
- താമസം (thaamasam) — Dark attributes such as anger, idiocy, etc., darkness, ignorance.
- നിഴൽ (nizhal) — Shadow. The dark shape cast by something in the light; also shade.
- നീലക്കാര് (neelakkar) — Dark cloud.
- നീലിമ (neelima) — Blue or dark colour.
- മൃഗം (mrigam) — Animal, deer, cow, hunting, musk, the dark shade in the moon, the month of Makaram, a sign of the Zodiac (Capricornus), enquiry.
iruluka is the verb to grow dark, nizhal is shadow or shade, iruttara a dark cell or dungeon, karmukil a dark cloud, kadumpachaniram dark green, and kalan has a dark person among its senses.
Common questions
What is dark in Malayalam?
For the colour, use ശ്യാമ (shyaama).
How do you say it is getting dark?
That calls for the verb ഇരുളുക (iruluka), to grow dark.