Disease in Malayalam
The plain Malayalam word for disease is വ്യാധി (vyaadhi), used of illness in general. Kerala speech pairs it with the names of particular conditions, and its register is neutral.
Most common translation
Illness, disease.
ഈ വ്യാധി മരുന്ന് കൊണ്ട് മാറും.
ee vyaadhi marunnu kondu maarum.
This disease will go away with medicine.
All Malayalam words for “disease”
- വ്യാധി (vyaadhi) — Illness, disease.
- ഗദം (gatham) — Disease, grief.
- ദീനം (deenam) — Disease, illness, disability, suffering.
- ദണ്ണം (dannam) — Illness, disease, pain, grief, suffering.
- പകര്ച്ചവ്യാധി (pakarchavyaadhi) — Infectious, disease, epidemic.
- ശീലായ്മ (sheelaayma) — Illness, disease, indisposition.
- കെടുതി (keduthi) — Ruin, loss, danger, risk, disease.
- ഖേദം (gedam) — Grief, sorrow, disease, poverty, weariness.
- നോവ് (nov) — Pain, grief, disease, illness.
- അസുഖമുള്ള (asukhamulla) — Sick; ill, unwell, suffering from a disease.
- കണ (kana) — Rickets, children's disease caused by vitamin deficiency.
- കാൻസർ (kaansar) — Cancer, a serious disease in which cells grow out of control; Malayalam also calls it arbudam.
- ഗ്രഹണി (grahani) — Diarrhoea, chronic disease caused by the congestion of bowels.
- ചീങ്കണ്ണ് (cheenkannu) — Soreness of the eye, an eye disease.
- ഞരമ്പുരോഗം (naramburogam) — Neuralgia, hysterics, fit, neurosis, disease affecting the nerves.
- ദന്തരോഗം (dantharogam) — Dental disease.
- പൊരി (pori) — Parch, scorch, get dry; parching, scorching, a skin disease.
- ബാധിച്ച (baadhicha) — Affected, hit or harmed by something such as a disease or a disaster.
- മഞ്ഞപ്പിത്തം (manjappitham) — Jaundice, a disease that affects the liver.
- മാനസികരോഗം (maanasikarogam) — Mental illness, disease of the mind, psychological illness.
- രക്തസ്രാവം (rakthasraavam) — Bleeding, bleeding as a disease.
- ഹൃദ്രോഗം (hridrogam) — Heart disease.
- ഹ്രസ്വദൃഷ്ടി (hraswadrishti) — Not far-sighted; an eye disease, myopia, shortness of sight, short sight.
വ്യാധി (vyaadhi) is the general term; പകര്ച്ചവ്യാധി (pakarchavyaadhi) is an infectious disease or epidemic, ദീനം (deenam) and ദണ്ണം (dannam) mix illness with suffering and grief, and ഗദം (gatham), ശീലായ്മ (sheelaayma) and കെടുതി (keduthi) are older or marginal choices.
Common questions
How do you say disease in Malayalam?
വ്യാധി (vyaadhi).
What about a contagious disease?
പകര്ച്ചവ്യാധി (pakarchavyaadhi) names an infectious disease or epidemic.