Fish in Malayalam
Fish is മീൻ (meen), a single short syllable, meen. It names the live animal with fins and scales and also fish as food, which matters in a cuisine built around it. Markets, menus and conversation all use this word.
Most common translation
Fish; a water animal with fins and scales, also fish eaten as food.
അമ്മ ഇന്ന് മീൻ കറി വെച്ചു.
amma innu meen kari vechu.
Mother made fish curry today.
All Malayalam words for “fish”
- മീൻ (meen) — Fish; a water animal with fins and scales, also fish eaten as food.
- ഏട്ട (eatta) — Unlucky woman, goddess of misfortune and poverty, a kind of fish.
- ചാകര (chakara) — Occurring of mud-banks and appearance of plenty of fish for a short period at some places along the Kerala coast during the monsoon, (idm) a season of plenty, plentifulness.
- പലവം (palavam) — Fishing net, fish basket, pit, fruit.
- മീൻപിടിത്തം (meenpidittham) — Fishing, catching fish, the work or pastime of catching fish.
- മീൻപിടുത്തക്കാരൻ (meenpiduthakkaran) — Fisherman; a person who catches fish for a living.
- വാൽ (vaal) — Tail, the tail of an animal, bird or fish; the hindmost part of something.
മീൻ (meen) is the fish, മീൻപിടിത്തം (meenpidittham) the activity of fishing, മീൻപിടുത്തക്കാരൻ (meenpiduthakkaran) the fisherman, and ചാകര (chakara) the seasonal abundance of fish along the Kerala coast.
Common questions
How do you say fish in Malayalam?
Say മീൻ (meen).
How do you say fishing?
Fishing is മീൻപിടിത്തം (meenpidittham).