Field in Malayalam
Field as a stretch of cultivated land, above all a paddy field, is വയൽ (vayal). Two syllables, vah-yal, and it is the word on village signboards and in everyday talk about farming. Field in the sense of work or study goes a different way.
Most common translation
Field, a paddy field, a cultivated plot of open land.
വയലിൽ നെല്ല് വിളഞ്ഞു.
vayalil nellu vilanju.
The rice ripened in the field.
All Malayalam words for “field”
- വയൽ (vayal) — Field, a paddy field, a cultivated plot of open land.
- ഗോത്രം (gothram) — Clan, tribe, family, mountain, forest, temple, field, water, cowshed, community, herd of cows, quiver, crown, ornamental umbrella, wealth.
- ചക്രം (chakram) — Wheel of vehicle or cart, water-wheel, Vishnu's powerful weapon, circle, society, country, earth, field, an old copper coin, wealth.
- തറ (thara) — Floor, ground, field, raised platform, hut, village, sacrificial altar.
- പുരവി (puravi) — Protection, horse, stable, elephant, field, alms.
- അടര്ക്കളം (adarkkalam) — Battle field.
- ഇരുപ്പുനിലം (iruppunilam) — Rice field cultivated twice a year.
- ഇറക്കുക (irakkuka) — Drive out, put down, unload, cultivate the field, gulp down, swallow, cure poisoning of snakebite, publish (look, magazine).
- എൻജിനീയറിങ് (enjineeyaring) — Engineering; the field of designing and building machines, roads and structures, also the degree course studied for it.
- കലകൾ (kalakal) — Arts, the fine arts such as music, dance and painting; also the arts as a field of study.
- പടനിലം (padanilam) — Battle field.
- പാടം (paadam) — Paddy field, expansive plot of land, an expanse.
- പാട്ടനിലം (pattanilam) — Paddy field given on lease.
- പൊട്ടല് (pottal) — Crack, breach, cracking or breaking sound, barren field, unopened ears of corn.
- പൊഴി (pozhi) — Sand bank between the sea and back waters (which disappears during monsoon), furrow for sowing seed in the ploughed field, groove.
- മണ്ണ് (mannu) — Soil, earth, paddy field.
- മേഖല (mekhala) — Zone; an area marked off for a purpose, a region or belt; sector. A part or division of an economy or of an area; a field of work.
- മേയുക (meyuka) — Thatch the roof, graze in the field by cattle.
- രംഗഭൂമി (ramgabhoomi) — Drama stage, battlefield, playing field.
- വിദഗ്ധൻ (vidagdhan) — Expert, a person with special skill or deep knowledge in a field.
- വിള (vila) — Yield or produce of agriculture, crop, agricultural farm or field, garden, ripeness.
വയൽ is land under crops, with ഇരുപ്പുനിലം a field cropped twice a year and അടര്ക്കളം a battlefield; a field of work or study is മേഖല (mekhala).
Common questions
How do you say field in Malayalam?
വയൽ (vayal), a paddy field or farmland.
And a field of work, as in my field?
Use മേഖല (mekhala), which covers a sector, zone or area of activity.