Entertainment in Malayalam
വിനോദനം (vinodanam) is entertainment and amusement, the abstract noun used in formal contexts such as entertainment tax. Say vi-no-da-nam with a retroflex d. The words beside it name places and kinds of entertainment rather than the idea itself.
Entertainment, amusement.
കുട്ടികൾക്ക് കളി ഒരു വിനോദനം ആണ്.
kuttikalkku kali oru vinodanam aanu.
For children, play is an entertainment.
All Malayalam words for “entertainment”
- വിനോദനം (vinodanam) — Entertainment, amusement.
- രംഗം (ramgam) — Stage, dais, platform, theatre stage, assembly, battlefield, colour, white lead (tin), dance, amusement, entertainment.
- കൊട്ടക (kottaka) — Pandal, theatre, thatched pavilion, entertainment hall.
- താരനിശ (tharanisha) — Starnight, a variety entertainment programme in which filmstars participate.
വിനോദനം is entertainment in general, രംഗം (ramgam) is primarily the stage and reaches entertainment only through that, കൊട്ടക (kottaka) is the hall or theatre where it happens, and താരനിശ (tharanisha) is one specific thing, a star-studded variety show.
Common questions
How do you say entertainment in Malayalam?
വിനോദനം (vinodanam), the noun for entertainment and amusement.
Which word means a cinema hall?
കൊട്ടക (kottaka), the traditional word for a theatre or thatched entertainment pavilion.