Drizzle in Malayalam
Drizzle is പൊടിമഴ (podimazha), literally dust-rain, a lovely compound for rain that falls in fine specks. Say po-di-ma-zha, ending on the Malayalam zh. Kerala gets plenty of it at the edges of the monsoon.
Most common translation
Drizzle, drizzling.
ഇന്ന് രാവിലെ പൊടിമഴ പെയ്തു.
innu raavile podimazha peythu.
It drizzled this morning.
All Malayalam words for “drizzle”
- പൊടിമഴ (podimazha) — Drizzle, drizzling.
- ചാറല് (chaaral) — Drizzling rain, drizzle.
- ചിണുങ്ങുക (chinunguka) — Whimper, cry obstinately, numble, drizzle.
- പാറുക (paruka) — Scatter, shower, drizzle.
പൊടിമഴ pictures the rain as fine dust, ചാറല് (chaaral) is the same drizzling rain named from the verb for sprinkling, and പാറുക (paruka) is to scatter or shower lightly.
Common questions
How do you say drizzle in Malayalam?
പൊടിമഴ (podimazha) is drizzle, and ചാറല് (chaaral) is used just as often.
What does the word literally mean?
It joins the word for dust or fine grain with the word for rain, giving rain that falls in fine specks.