Gas-trouble in Malayalam
What Keralites call gas trouble is വായുസ്തംഭം (vaayusthambham), wind blocked in the stomach. The English phrase itself is heard constantly in Kerala English, and this is the Malayalam term behind it. Ayurvedic practice treats the complaint under this name.
Most common translation
Gas-trouble.
രാത്രി കൂടുതൽ കഴിച്ചാൽ വായുസ്തംഭം വരും.
raathri kooduthal kazhichaal vaayusthambham varum.
If you eat too much at night you get gas trouble.
Dictionary entry
- വായുസ്തംഭം (vaayusthambham) — Gas-trouble.
Only one entry is listed, and it refers to the blocked wind itself rather than to any single symptom of it.
Common questions
How do you say gas-trouble in Malayalam?
വായുസ്തംഭം (vaayusthambham).
What does the word describe?
Wind trapped or blocked in the stomach, the usual sense of gas trouble.