Flower in Malayalam
In written and poetic Malayalam a flower is കുസുമം (kusumam), a Sanskrit word that turns up in verse and in names. Everyday speech more often names the particular bloom, as with റോസാപ്പൂവ് (rosaappoovu), a rose. The parts of a flower have their own tidy words.
Most common translation
Flower, menstrual, fluid.
പൂന്തോട്ടത്തിൽ വെളുത്ത കുസുമം വിടർന്നു.
poonthottatthil veluththa kusumam vidarnnu
A white flower bloomed in the garden.
All Malayalam words for “flower”
- കുസുമം (kusumam) — Flower, menstrual, fluid.
- പുഷ്പിക്കുക (pushpikkuka) — Flower, blossom, attain to puberty, menstruate.
- പൂവ് (poovu) — Flower, the coloured bloom of a plant, a blossom.
- പ്രസൂനം (prasoonam) — Flower, fruit, bud.
- സൂനം (soonam) — Flower, bud, fruit.
- ഭിന്നം (bhinnam) — A bit, portion, piece, flower, toddy, fraction, a flaw in diamonds.
- അല്ലി (alli) — Inner parts of a flower.
- ഇതള് (ithal) — Petal, flower leaf.
- കൊന്നപ്പൂ (konnappoo) — The flower of Cassia Fistula.
- ജാലകം (jaalakam) — Window, lattice-window, fresh flower bud, multitude, the calyx as it appears before budding, ornament for the head, fraud.
- നിമിഷം (nimisham) — A moment, winking of the eye, time for a wink, closing in as of the petals of a flower.
- നീരജം (neerajam) — Lotus flower, pearl.
- പത്മവ്യൂഹം (pathmavyooham) — An army arrayed in the form of a lotus flower.
- പവിഴമല്ലി (pavizhamalli) — A kind of flower resembling coral.
- പൂക്കുട (pookkuda) — Ornamental flower basket or vase.
- പൂങ്കൊടി (poonkodi) — Beautiful flag, flower vine, beautiful woman.
- പൂച്ചട്ടി (poochatti) — Flower pot.
- പൂവന് (poovan) — Cock, male bird, one having flower, a kind of plantain, tree that doesn't bear fruit, Brahma.
- മടുമലര് (madumalar) — Blossomed flower with nectar.
- മീലനം (meelanam) — Closing the eye, winking, closing (of the petals of a flower).
- റോജാ (rojaa) — Rose flower, rose plant.
- റോസാപ്പൂവ് (rosaappoovu) — Rose; the rose flower, the pinkish red colour of it; in English rose is also the past form of rise.
കുസുമം is the literary flower; ഇതള് is a petal, അല്ലി the inner parts, and കൊന്നപ്പൂ the golden bloom associated with Vishu.
Common questions
How do you say flower in Malayalam?
കുസുമം (kusumam) in writing; for a rose, റോസാപ്പൂവ് (rosaappoovu).
What do you call a petal?
ഇതള് (ithal), the leaf-like part of a flower.