Fruits in Malayalam
Oddly, no word for fruits as a class appears among these options. പലഹാരം (palaharam) is the nearest and even then it means snacks, cakes and sweets with fruit mentioned alongside. The rest deal with parts of fruit or with particular ones.
Most common translation
Cake, sweet meat, pastry, fruits, etc.
വൈകുന്നേരം അമ്മ പലഹാരം ഉണ്ടാക്കി.
vaikunneram amma palaharam undaakki.
In the evening mother made a snack.
All Malayalam words for “fruits”
- പലഹാരം (palaharam) — Cake, sweet meat, pastry, fruits, etc.
- തോട് (thod) — Small canal, brook, husk of fruits, shell.
- തോട്ടി (thotti) — Hook for plucking fruits, hook for controlling an elephant.
- ത്രിഫല (thrifala) — The three medicinal fruits gooseberry, terminalia and ink-nut.
- ദശ (dasha) — Flesh, pulp, fleshy portion of fruits.
- പൊട്ടുകുല (pottukula) — Bunch of unripe plantain fruits.
- പ്രഥമന് (pradhaman) — The first one, chief, a kind of dessert made of milk, rice, sugar, fruits etc.
- ഫലിതം (falitham) — Humour, witticism, joke, tree bearing fruits.
- വിജയം (vijayam) — Success, achievement, conquest, realisation of the fruits of hard work.
- വിജയിക്കുക (vijayikkuka) — Win, succeed, realise the fruits of one's work, conquer.
തോട് (thod) is the husk or shell, ദശ (dasha) the pulp, തോട്ടി (thotti) the hook for plucking, പൊട്ടുകുല (pottukula) a bunch of unripe plantains, and ത്രിഫല (thrifala) three specific medicinal fruits.
Common questions
How do you say fruits in Malayalam?
No exact word is listed; പലഹാരം (palaharam) comes closest but really means snacks and sweets.
How do I say the pulp of a fruit?
ദശ (dasha), the fleshy part.