Flavour in Malayalam
Flavour is സ്വാദ് (swaad), the word for how something tastes, in use at every meal. It applies to a dish, a fruit or a drink, and it is the word used to praise good cooking.
Most common translation
Taste, relish, flavour.
അമ്മയുടെ സാമ്പാറിന് പ്രത്യേക സ്വാദ് ഉണ്ട്.
ammayude saambaarinu prathyeka swaadu undu.
Mother's sambar has a special taste.
All Malayalam words for “flavour”
- സ്വാദ് (swaad) — Taste, relish, flavour.
- ആസ്വാദം (aaswaadam) — Enjoying, appreciating, tasting, flavour.
- ചുവ (chuva) — Taste, unpleasant taste, flavour.
- കയ്പുള്ള (kaypulla) — Bitter, having a sharp unpleasant taste like bitter gourd or medicine; harsh in flavour.
- രുചിക്കുക (ruchikkuka) — Taste, to try the flavour of food; to have a particular flavour.
സ്വാദ് (swaad) is taste and relish in a positive sense, ചുവ (chuva) is taste too but often an unpleasant one, and ആസ്വാദം (aaswaadam) is about the act of enjoying or appreciating rather than the flavour itself.
Common questions
How do you say flavour in Malayalam?
സ്വാദ് (swaad) is the word for flavour or taste.
Which word fits a bad taste?
ചുവ (chuva), which often carries the sense of an unpleasant taste.