Dead in Malayalam
Malayalam words whose English meaning includes “dead”:
- അടക്കം (adakkam) — Humility, secret, the whole, burial of the dead, contents.
- തര്പ്പണം (tharappanam) — Satisfaction, libation to the spirits of the dead, sprinkling (consecrated) water, fountain.
- നിര്ജ്ജീവ (nirjjeeva) — Lifeless, senseless, dead, passive, inactive.
- പരേതന് (parethan) — The dead, dead man.
- പിണം (pinam) — Corpse, dead body, carcass.
- പ്രേതം (pretham) — Dead body, soul of the dead, ghost, evil spirit.
- ഭൂതം (bhootham) — What has happened, the past, past time, truth, spirit of the dead, ghost, evil apparition, Siva's lieutenants.
- മയ്യത്ത് (mayath) — Dead body (esp.of Muslims).
- മൃതം (mritham) — One who is dead, death, corpse, poison, life of beggary.
- ശവം (shavam) — Dead body, corpse; (fig.) clumsy, useless fellow.
- സംസ്കരിക്കുക (samskarikkuka) — Purify, refine, process, reform, civilize, cremate or bury (dead body).