Dirt in Malayalam
Dirt in everyday Malayalam is അഴുക്ക് (azhukku). It is the word for grime on clothes, hands or floors, and it is what anyone would say while pointing at a stain. The zh is a distinctive Malayalam sound, made with the tongue curled back without touching.
Dirt, filth.
ഷർട്ടിലെ അഴുക്ക് സോപ്പിട്ട് കഴുകി.
shartile azhukku soppitt kazhuki.
I washed the dirt off the shirt with soap.
All Malayalam words for “dirt”
- അഴുക്ക് (azhukku) — Dirt, filth.
- മലിനം (malinam) — Dirt, filth, crime, blemish, sin, impurity.
- മാലിന്യം (maalinyam) — Filth, dirt, stain, pollution, sin, waste.
- ചേറ് (cher) — Mire, mud, dirt.
- മുട (muda) — Stench, smell, dirt, foul odour.
- വൃത്തിയുള്ള (vrithiyulla) — Clean, tidy; free from dirt.
അഴുക്ക് is ordinary dirt and grime, മാലിന്യം is pollution and waste in the environmental sense used by municipalities, മലിനം is a formal word that extends to moral impurity, ചേറ് is wet mud or mire, and മുട is foul smell more than dirt.
Common questions
How do you say dirt in Malayalam?
Use അഴുക്ക് (azhukku) for dirt and grime.
Which word appears on waste management notices?
മാലിന്യം (maalinyam), the standard term for waste and pollution in official and environmental writing.