Fruit in Malayalam
Fruit is ഫലം (falam), and the same word doubles as result or reward, much as fruits of labour does in English. Particular fruits have their own names, such as തേങ്ങ (thenga), the coconut, and ഓറഞ്ച് (oranj), the orange. A peel or skin is തൊലി (tholi).
Most common translation
Fruit, crop, experience, reward, achievement, result, usefulness.
മരുന്ന് നല്ല ഫലം ചെയ്തു.
marunnu nalla phalam cheythu.
The medicine had a good effect.
All Malayalam words for “fruit”
- ഫലം (falam) — Fruit, crop, experience, reward, achievement, result, usefulness.
- പ്രസൂനം (prasoonam) — Flower, fruit, bud.
- പലവം (palavam) — Fishing net, fish basket, pit, fruit.
- സൂനം (soonam) — Flower, bud, fruit.
- അണ്ടി (andi) — Seed, stone inside a fruit, nut, kernel, testicle, scrotum.
- ആത്തച്ചക്ക (athachakka) — Fruit of the custard apple tree.
- ആപ്പിൾ (aappil) — Apple, the round red or green fruit of the apple tree.
- ഓറഞ്ച് (oranj) — Orange. The citrus fruit; the colour orange is called oranj niram.
- കടച്ചക്ക (kadachakka) — A kind of fruit used in cooking, bread-fruit.
- കാഫലം (kaphalam) — Fructification, bearing fruit, yield.
- താലം (thaalam) — Palmyra (fruit), plate, platter, beating time, bolt, palm of the hand.
- തേങ്ങ (thenga) — Coconut, the hard brown fruit of the coconut palm, grated or ground into most Kerala dishes.
- തൊലി (tholi) — Skin, the outer covering of the body, also the peel of a fruit or vegetable.
- നെല്ലിക്ക (nellikka) — The Indian gooseberry (fruit).
- പച്ചപ്പഴം (pachappazham) — Unripe fruit.
- പടല (padala) — Cluster of plantains (fruit), a group, a bunch.
- പനസം (panasam) — Jack tree, jack fruit, thorn.
- പഴം (pazham) — Fruit. A ripe fruit; by itself it often means a banana.
- പുളി (puli) — Sourness, fruit of the tamarind tree, acidity, curry made from tamarind fruit juice.
- പുഴുക്ക് (puzhukku) — Vegetable preparation made by cooking (stewing) banana, tubers, yam, jack fruit, etc.
- പൂവന് (poovan) — Cock, male bird, one having flower, a kind of plantain, tree that doesn't bear fruit, Brahma.
- മാങ്ങ (manga) — Mango. The fruit of the mango tree, eaten raw or ripe.
- വാഴപ്പഴം (vazhappazham) — Banana. The ripe fruit of the plantain; often called simply pazham.
പ്രസൂനം (prasoonam) and സൂനം (soonam) are poetic words covering flower, bud and fruit together, so neither substitutes for the everyday ഫലം (falam).
Common questions
How do you say fruit in Malayalam?
ഫലം (falam).
Does the word have another meaning?
Yes, it also means result, reward or achievement.