Feather in Malayalam
Take care with this one: the ordinary Malayalam word for a bird's feather is not among the options. തൂലിക (thoolika) is listed for feather, but in modern use it almost always means a pen or a painter's brush, a sense that grew from the quill.
Feather, pen, painter's brush, cotton mattress, lamp wick.
കവിയുടെ തൂലിക ഇന്നും ഓർമ്മയിലുണ്ട്.
kaviyude thoolika innum ormmayilundu.
The poet's pen is remembered even today.
All Malayalam words for “feather”
- തൂലിക (thoolika) — Feather, pen, painter's brush, cotton mattress, lamp wick.
- ബര്ഹം (barham) — Peacock's feather, feather, leaf, bud.
- പത്രം (pathram) — Leaf, wing, feather, news paper, article, line, sheet, document, line made with sandalwood paste.
തൂലിക is best known as a pen, പത്രം is mainly a leaf or a newspaper with feather as a minor sense, and ബര്ഹം is a literary Sanskrit word for a feather, especially a peacock's.
Common questions
What is feather in Malayalam?
Among these entries, തൂലിക (thoolika) is the one glossed as feather, though readers will take it as a pen. For a peacock's feather, the literary word is ബര്ഹം (barham).
Which word would appear in poetry about peacocks?
ബര്ഹം (barham), which specifically names a peacock's feather and belongs to elevated literary language.