Epistle in Malayalam
Malayalam has no churchy word set apart for epistle; a letter of any kind is എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu). The same noun covers writing and handwriting, so the meaning comes from context, and it is as ordinary as a word gets. The zh is the retroflex sound peculiar to Malayalam and Tamil, closer to an r than to a z.
Letter, writing, epistle, drawing or sketching.
മുത്തശ്ശന്റെ എഴുത്ത് ഇന്നലെ കിട്ടി.
muthashante ezhuthu innale kitti.
Grandfather's letter arrived yesterday.
All Malayalam words for “epistle”
- എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu) — Letter, writing, epistle, drawing or sketching.
- കായിതം (kayitham) — Letter, note, epistle.
എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu) is the everyday word for a letter or a piece of writing. കായിതം (kayitham) also means a letter or note but is rare and old-fashioned, the sort of thing you meet in older texts rather than in speech.
Common questions
How do you say epistle in Malayalam?
Use എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu), the general word for a letter. Malayalam does not mark the formal or biblical flavour of epistle with a separate noun.
Does എഴുത്ത് (ezhuthu) also mean handwriting?
Yes. Depending on the sentence it can be a letter, writing in general, or someone's hand, which is why Malayalis often add a word to make it clear.