Foster in Malayalam
Foster as a verb is പോറ്റുക (pottuka) in Malayalam, with a doubled hard tt and a short o: POT-tu-ka. It covers raising a child who is not your own, keeping and feeding an animal, and supporting a dependent relative.
Most common translation
Foster, protect, sustain, look after.
അവൾ രണ്ട് പശുക്കളെ പോറ്റുന്നുണ്ട്.
aval randu pashukkale pottunnundu.
She rears two cows.
All Malayalam words for “foster”
- പോറ്റുക (pottuka) — Foster, protect, sustain, look after.
- താച്ചി (thachi) — Foster- mother, mother's mother, step- mother, woman who breast feeds another's child.
- ധാത്രി (dhaathri) — Earth, foster mother nurse, gooseberry tree, gooseberry.
- പോറ്റമ (pottama) — Foster mother.
പോറ്റുക (pottuka) is the verb, പോറ്റമ (pottama) is the plain word for a foster mother, താച്ചി (thachi) is an older term that also covers a step-mother or a wet nurse, and ധാത്രി (dhaathri) is literary with several unrelated senses.
Common questions
How do you say foster in Malayalam?
Use പോറ്റുക for the act of fostering and പോറ്റമ for a foster mother.
Which word would appear in writing about adoption?
പോറ്റുക and പോറ്റമ read naturally there; താച്ചി sounds dated and ധാത്രി belongs to poetry rather than prose.