Gold in Malayalam
Gold is സ്വര്ണ്ണം (swarnnam), the word on every jewellery shop board in Kerala. പൊന്ന് (ponnu) is the older native word and is used affectionately for anything precious. Both are heard daily.
Most common translation
Gold; (idm.) something very precious.
സ്വർണ്ണം വില കൂടിയ ലോഹമാണ്.
swarnnam vila koodiya lohamanu.
Gold is an expensive metal.
All Malayalam words for “gold”
- സ്വര്ണ്ണം (swarnnam) — Gold; (idm.) something very precious.
- കനകം (kanakam) — Gold, wealth.
- പൊന്ന് (ponnu) — Gold, wealth, beauty, what is good and excellent.
- രുക്മം (rukmam) — Gold.
- ഹിരണം (hiranam) — Gold, seminal fluid, cowry.
- ഹിരണ്യം (hiranyam) — Gold, golden, vessel, silver, wealth.
- ഹേമം (hemam) — Gold, water, snow, winter; strain, violence, force, compulsion.
- കല്യാണം (kallyanam) — Auspiciousness, prosperity, celebration, gold, heaven, marriage.
- ദ്രവ്യം (dravyam) — Matter, substance, wealth, gold, bell-metal, medicine, liquor.
- പീലി (peeli) — Tail-feather of a peacock, eyelash, tender leaf- blade of a palm tree, mountain, gold, decorative fan made of peacock feathers used in state or temple processions.
- മനോഹരം (manoharam) — What is beautiful, enchanting, attractive, gold, a kind of jasmine.
- മായംചേര്ക്കുക (maayamcherkkuka) — Adulterate, add cheap or harmful substances to food, gold, etc.
- കനക (kanaka) — Of gold, golden.
- തങ്കം (thankam) — Pure gold.
- പതക്കം (pathakkam) — Neck ornament of gold studded with jewels.
- പൊന്നാരം (ponnaram) — Gold necklace, flattery, beauty, great affection, coquetry.
- പൊന്നിലം (poonilam) — Heaven, land of gold.
- പൊന്കലശം (ponkalasham) — Golden pot, pot made of gold.
- പൊന്തൂക്കം (ponthookkam) — Gold coin equal in weight to nine gold 'fanams'.
- പൊല് (poll) — Of or pert. to gold.
- മുക്കുക (mukkuka) — Dip in water, immerse, plunge, plate a metal object with gold, baptize.
- രാശി (raashi) — Multitude, heap, any one of the 12 signs of the Zodiac, a gold coin of olden times.
- ലോഹം (loham) — Metal, a hard shiny material such as iron, copper or gold.
The rest are poetic or classical: കനകം (kanakam), ഹിരണ്യം (hiranyam), ഹിരണം (hiranam), രുക്മം (rukmam) and ഹേമം (hemam) belong to verse and to names rather than to shops.
Common questions
How do you say gold in Malayalam?
സ്വര്ണ്ണം (swarnnam).
What is the older word for gold?
പൊന്ന് (ponnu), also used for anything precious.