Dusk in Malayalam
Dusk is given as അസ്തമയ സന്ധ്യ (asthamaya sandhya), the twilight that follows sunset. The phrase joins the word for setting with the word for the evening hour, so it is descriptive and clear. In Kerala this is the hour when lamps are lit.
അസ്തമയ സന്ധ്യ (asthamaya sandhya)
Dusk, twilight.
അസ്തമയ സന്ധ്യ ആകുമ്പോൾ പക്ഷികൾ മടങ്ങും.
asthamaya sandhya aakumpol pakshikal madangum.
When dusk comes the birds return.
All Malayalam words for “dusk”
- അസ്തമയ സന്ധ്യ (asthamaya sandhya) — Dusk, twilight.
- മൂവന്തി (moovanthi) — Dusk, evening.
- ദോഷം (dosham) — Flaw, harm, fault, sin, bad manners, illness, dusk, poetical defect, adultery.
- വൈകുന്നേരം (vaikunneram) — Late time, evening, dusk.
- വിളക്ക് (vilakku) — Lamp, a light for a room, also the traditional oil lamp lit at dusk.
മൂവന്തി (moovanthi) is the shorter, more poetic word for dusk or early evening, വൈകുന്നേരം (vaikunneram) is simply late evening, വിളക്ക് (vilakku) is the lamp lit at that hour, and ദോഷം (dosham) means a flaw with dusk only as a far sense.
Common questions
How do you say dusk in Malayalam?
Use അസ്തമയ സന്ധ്യ (asthamaya sandhya), sunset twilight.
Is there a single word for it?
മൂവന്തി (moovanthi) is the compact, somewhat poetic alternative.