Floor in Malayalam
The floor you walk on is തറ (thara), with a soft dental th and short vowels at both ends. It also covers bare ground and a raised platform, so the surrounding words decide the sense.
Floor, ground, field, raised platform, hut, village, sacrificial altar.
തറ തുടച്ച് വൃത്തിയാക്കി.
thara thudachu vrithiyaakki.
The floor was wiped clean.
All Malayalam words for “floor”
- തറ (thara) — Floor, ground, field, raised platform, hut, village, sacrificial altar.
- പദം (padam) — A foot, step, foot-impression, leg, word, site, mark, ray, status, position, vigour, object, floor, a line of a stanza, a song.
- ഭൂമി (bhoomi) — Earth, world, one of the five elements, floor, ground, country, land, countryside.
- സ്ഥലം (sthalam) — Tract of land, ground, floor, site, plot, place.
- അടിച്ചുതളി (adichuthali) — Sweep the floor and sprinkle water on it (to purify it as a ritual), the work of sweeping and scrubbing the floor.
- അടിച്ചുവാരുക (adichuvaruka) — Sweep (the floor, etc.with a broom).
- കോണിപ്പടി (konippadi) — Stairs, the steps that lead from one floor up to another, a staircase.
- നിലവിതാനം (nilavithanam) — Floor level.
- പൂക്കളം (pookkalam) — Floral arrangement on the floor or ground.
തറ is the floor itself, നിലവിതാനം (nilavithanam) is floor level in a technical sense, and ഭൂമി (bhoomi) and സ്ഥലം (sthalam) are ground or land that sometimes stand in for floor. അടിച്ചുവാരുക (adichuvaruka) and അടിച്ചുതളി (adichuthali) are about sweeping and washing it, പൂക്കളം (pookkalam) is a floral pattern laid on it, and പദം (padam) reaches floor only among many other senses.
Common questions
What is floor in Malayalam?
തറ (thara) is the ordinary word for a floor.
How do I say sweep the floor?
അടിച്ചുവാരുക (adichuvaruka) already means sweeping the floor with a broom, so no extra word is needed.