Death in Malayalam

All Malayalam words for “death”

• മരണം (maranam) — Death, passing away.
• ചരമം (charamam) — Death, the end, the west, the twilight glow.
• ജീവഹാനി (jeevahaani) — Death, destruction of life.
• നിര്യാണം (nirayanam) — Death, salvation, rope for fastening cattle, iron.
• അന്തം (antham) — End, death.
• പ്രാണഹാനി (praanahaani) — Loss of life, death.
• മൃതം (mritham) — One who is dead, death, corpse, poison, life of beggary.
• അവസാനം (avasanam) — End, conclusion, death.
• നിര്‍വൃതി (nirvrithi) — Great joy, rapture, bliss, gratification, salvation, death.
• പതനം (pathanam) — Fall, downfall, decline, setting, ruin, death, stage, flying.
• പ്രളയം (pralayam) — End of the world, deluge, inundation, floods; (idm.) decline, destruction, death, destruction of the world, all- destroying flood at the end of an age, destruction.
• മോക്ഷം (moksham) — Salvation, liberation, deliverance (from worldly bonds), death, shedding, unbinding.
• അകാലമരണം (akalamaranam) — Untimely death, premature death.
• ആജിവം (ajivam) — Until death, lifelong, as long as one is alive.
• ആജീവനാന്തം (aajeevanaantham) — Throughout life, till death.
• ആസന്നകാലം (aasannakalam) — Hour of death, period of death.
• ഒടുങ്ങല്‍ (odungal) — Termination, death or dying.
• കാലം (kalam) — Pert, to time, pert.Yama (death personified), killing, black.
• കാലന്‍ (kalan) — Yama (personification of death), dark person, cripple, lame person.
• കാലപാശം (kalapasham) — The rope with which Yama (Death) ensnares his victims, extreme calamity, fatal danger.
• കാളരാത്രി (kalarathri) — Night before death, terribly dark night, terrible night.
• ജീവിതകാലം (jeevithakaalam) — Lifetime, time of life, life till death.
• തൂങ്ങല്‍ (thoongal) — Hanging, sleeping, dozing, hanging (to death).
• ദുര്‍മ്മരണം (durmmaranam) — Unnatural death, violent death, accidental death.
• നരകം (narakam) — Hell, world where sinners go after death; (idm.) a place full of misery and pain.
• ബലിയിടുക (baliyiduka) — Perform obsequies for the souls of departed forefather's, perform funeral rite, rites connected with death anniversary of close relatives.
• ബുദ്ധന്‍ (buddhan) — Seer, the enlightened one, the all knowing one freed from birth and death, Lord Buddha.
• മരണനിരക്ക് (marananirakk) — Death rate, the rate at which people die.
• മരണഭീതി (maranabheethi) — Dread of death, far of death.
• മരണശിക്ഷ (maranashiksha) — Capital punishment, sentence of death.
• മാരക (maaraka) — Causing death, fatal, killing, lethal, deadly.
• വികൃതി (vikrithi) — Abnormality, vicious attitude, symptom of death, mischief.
• സമാധി (samaadhi) — Deep meditation, death (of sages, ascetics and holy persons), burial, tomb (of holy persons).

മരണം is the plain word, നിര്യാണം and ചരമം (charamam) are formal, ജീവഹാനി (jeevahaani) and പ്രാണഹാനി (praanahaani) mean loss of life, and അവസാനം (avasanam) and അന്തം (antham) mean end.