Ghost in Malayalam
Spirits of the dead are called പ്രേതം (pretham), the word in ghost stories and in talk about funerary rites, where it also means the corpse. It is the most widely used of these words. A spirit or apparition of the older kind is ഭൂതം (bhootham).
Most common translation
Dead body, soul of the dead, ghost, evil spirit.
ആ വീട്ടില് പ്രേതം ഉണ്ടെന്നത് വെറും കഥയാണ്
aa veettil pretham undennathu verum kathayaanu
That there is a ghost in that house is just a story.
All Malayalam words for “ghost”
- പ്രേതം (pretham) — Dead body, soul of the dead, ghost, evil spirit.
- ജിന്ന് (jinnu) — Demon, ghost.
- ഭൂതം (bhootham) — What has happened, the past, past time, truth, spirit of the dead, ghost, evil apparition, Siva's lieutenants.
- ആത്മാവ് (aathmaavu) — Spirit; the soul, the part of a person that is not the body, also a ghost; for courage or liveliness Malayalam says uthsaaham.
pretham is the ghost of a particular dead person, bhootham a spirit or apparition more generally, ജിന്ന് (jinnu) a demon of Islamic lore, and ആത്മാവ് (aathmaavu) the soul itself.
Common questions
How do you say ghost in Malayalam?
Ghost is പ്രേതം (pretham).
Which word means spirit or soul?
ആത്മാവ് (aathmaavu), the soul as distinct from the body.