Feelings in Malayalam
Feelings in the plural, the emotions a person carries inside, is വികാരങ്ങൾ (vikaarangal). The singular ends in -am and the plural swaps in -angal, a pattern worth learning early. It is the neutral word, equally at home in conversation and in print.
Most common translation
Feelings, emotions, what a person feels inside.
അവൻ വികാരങ്ങൾ മറച്ചുവെച്ചു.
avan vikaarangal marachuvechu.
He hid his feelings.
All Malayalam words for “feelings”
- വികാരങ്ങൾ (vikaarangal) — Feelings, emotions, what a person feels inside.
- അനുഭാവം (anubhavam) — Sympathy, mental support, sharing the feelings of others, fellow feeling.
- അന്തസ്തോഭം (anthasthobham) — Strong feelings/emotions.
- മൂഡ് (mood) — Mood, the state of one's feelings, frame of mind at a given time.
വികാരങ്ങൾ covers emotions in general; മൂഡ് is the borrowed word for one frame of mind at a given moment, അനുഭാവം is fellow feeling for someone else, and അന്തസ്തോഭം is a bookish term for strong inner emotion.
Common questions
How do you say feelings in Malayalam?
വികാരങ്ങൾ (vikaarangal).
How do I talk about being in a mood?
Malayalam borrows the English word, as മൂഡ് (mood), for the state of a person feelings at a given time.