Food in Malayalam

All Malayalam words for “food”

• ഭക്ഷണം (bhakshanam) — Food, eating food.
• അന്നം (annam) — Food, rice.
• അഷ്ടി (ashti) — Food, livelihood.
• ഭോജനം (bhojanam) — Food, meal, enjoyment, wealth.
• ഊണ് (oonu) — Meal, food, feast, lunch.
• അപ്പം (appam) — A kind of cake, bread, food.
• ഭുക്തം (bhuktham) — The thing eaten, enjoyed or consumed, food.
• അക്ഷാരലവണം (aksharalavanam) — Natural salt, rock salt, food item without artificial salt.
• അടുക്കള (adukkala) — Kitchen, the room in a house where food is cooked.
• അന്നദാതാവ് (annadathavu) — One who provides food, guardian.
• അന്നദാനം (annadanam) — Giving food.
• അമൃതം (amrutham) — The food of gods.
• അശിക്കുക (ashikkuka) — Eat(food).
• ആഹാരംകഴിക്കുക (aharamkazhikkuka) — Take food.
• ഇറച്ചി (irachi) — Meat. The flesh of an animal or bird used as food.
• ഇറ്റലി (ittali) — Italy. A country in southern Europe, known for Rome, art and food.
• ഉച്ചഭക്ഷണം (ucchabhakshanam) — Lunch. The midday meal; food eaten in the middle of the day.
• ഉണ്ണിക്കുക (unnikkuka) — Feed, give food.
• ഉത്തരവുകൾ (utharavukal) — Orders; official commands or directions. A shop or food order is called ordar.
• ഉപ്പ് (uppu) — Salt. The white seasoning added to food; also the salty taste.
• ഊട്ടി (ootti) — Fed, gave food to someone (past form of the verb oottuka, to feed).
• ഊട്ടി വളര്‍ത്തുക (ootti valarthuka) — Feed and fatten, give nourishing food and bring up.
• ഊട്ടിവളര്‍ത്തുക (oottivalarthuka) — Feed and fatten, give nourishing food and bring up.
• ഊണു കഴിക്കുക (oonu kazhikkuka) — Have a meal, eat food, dine.
• എരിവുള്ള (erivulla) — Spicy, hot with chilli; pungent food that burns the tongue.
• ഒരേ (ore) — Same, one and the same, not different; athe is also used, as in athe bhakshanam, the same food.
• കഴിച്ചു (kazhichu) — Eaten, the past form of kazhikkuka, to eat; consumed as food.
• കൊലച്ചോര്‍ (kolachor) — Food served to a condemned prisoner before execution.
• ക്രമീകൃതാഹാരം (krameekrithaahaaram) — Balanced food.
• ചൂടുള്ള (choodulla) — Hot, warm to the touch; of high temperature, said of food, water or weather.
• ജലപാനം (jalapaanam) — Drinking water, the simplest kind of food.
• തട്ടുകട (thattukada) — A small shop on wheels, a shop on a cart selling fast food by the road side, cart-eatery.
• പകര്‍ച്ച (pakarcha) — Exchange, transference, transmission, infection, food that is specially sent to a person.
• പട്ടിണി (pattini) — Starvation, fasting, privation of food.
• പാചകക്കാരൻ (paachakakkaaran) — Cook. A person who prepares food for others; chef.
• പാത്രം (paathram) — Bowl; a round deep dish for food or liquid; Malayalam uses the general word for vessel.
• പാർട്ടി (paartti) — Party, a celebration with food and friends; also a political party.
• പ്ലേറ്റ് (plettu) — Plate. The flat dish food is served on; a traditional plate is thalika.
• മടപ്പുര (madappura) — Place of cooking (food offerings to a deity or royal food), kitchen.
• മായംചേര്‍ക്കുക (maayamcherkkuka) — Adulterate, add cheap or harmful substances to food, gold, etc.
• മീൻ (meen) — Fish; a water animal with fins and scales, also fish eaten as food.
• മുട്ട (mutta) — Egg. A hen egg used as food; also the egg of any bird.
• രുചിക്കുക (ruchikkuka) — Taste, to try the flavour of food; to have a particular flavour.
• വയറ് (vayaru) — Stomach, the belly, the part of the body where food goes.
• വിളമ്പല്‍ (vilambal) — Serving of food; (fig.) being officious, interrupt unnecessarily, make (some secret) public.
• വിശക്കുന്ന (vishakkunna) — Hungry, in need of food (Malayalam normally says enikku vishakkunnu, hunger comes to me).
• സഹായിക്കുന്നു (sahaayikkunnu) — Helping; giving help or a hand to someone; in English helping also means one serving of food; helps; the present form of sahaayikkuka, to help or assist, to be of use.
• സേവിച്ചു (sevichu) — Served; worked for a person, a country or an organisation; of food and drink Malayalam says vilambi instead.
• ഹരിതവിപ്ലവം (harithaviplavam) — Green revolution, revolution in food production.
• ഹോട്ടൽ (hottal) — Restaurant; a place where food is sold and eaten; in Kerala the English word hotel is the everyday term for an eatery.

bhakshanam is food generally, oonu is a meal eaten, അന്നം (annam) is food in the older sense that also means rice, and ഭോജനം (bhojanam) is a formal feast or meal.