Government in Malayalam
Government as the ruling apparatus of a country is ഭരണകൂടം (bharanakoodam), the standard word for the state as a ruling body. Say it in even beats, bha-ra-na-koo-dam. News reports and formal prose use it for the machinery of the state rather than for an individual minister.
Most common translation
Government, the government machinery.
ഭരണകൂടം പുതിയ റോഡുകൾ നിർമ്മിച്ചു.
bharanakoodam puthiya roadukal nirmmichu.
The government built new roads.
All Malayalam words for “government”
- ഭരണകൂടം (bharanakoodam) — Government, the government machinery.
- സർക്കാർ (sarkkaar) — Government, the body that rules a state or country, the administration.
- പരിപാലനം (paripalanam) — Protection, government, ruling.
- പരിരക്ഷ (pariraksha) — Protection, preservation, government.
- ഇസ്രായേൽ (israayel) — Israel; a country in West Asia, with Jerusalem as its seat of government.
- ഉദ്യോഗം (udyogam) — Interest, zeal, effort, occupation, work, government service.
- ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥൻ (udyogasthan) — Officer, official; a person holding a post in government or an organisation.
- ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥർ (udyogasthar) — Officers; officials holding a post in government, police or a company; officials; people holding posts in a government or an organization, officers.
- എക്സിക്യൂട്ടീവ് (eksikyoottiv) — Executive; a senior officer in a company or government; the English word is used in everyday Malayalam, while the formal term is nirvaahakan.
- ഏജൻസി (ejansi) — Agency; an office or firm that does business on behalf of others, also a government department.
- കേന്ദ്ര (kendra) — Central, at or near the centre; also relating to the central government.
- കേന്ദ്രമന്ത്രി (kendramanthri) — Central minister, minister of the Union government.
- കോർപ്പറേഷൻ (korpparesan) — Corporation, a large company; in Kerala also the elected government of a big city, as in Kochi Corporation.
- ഗവർണർ (gavarnar) — Governor; the head of a state appointed by the central government, or the head of a bank or institution.
- തറവില (tharavila) — Floor-price, minimum price (as fixed by the government).
- തസ്തിക (thasthika) — A post in the government or in an office.
- നയങ്ങൾ (nayangal) — Policies; the official rules or principles a government, company or school follows.
- നികുതികൾ (nikuthikal) — Taxes. Money that people and businesses must pay to the government.
- നിയമങ്ങൾ (niyamangal) — Rules, regulations, the laws of a place or a game; laws; the rules made by a government that people must obey, legal rules.
- നീതി (neethi) — Justice, righteousness, law, ethics, leading, government policy.
- പദ്ധതികൾ (paddhathikal) — Plans, schemes, projects; the plural of paddhathi; projects; planned pieces of work, schemes undertaken by a government or company, assignments done at school.
- പുറമ്പോക്ക് (purambokk) — Government land that belongs to none, unclaimed land.
- ഫെഡറൽ (fedaral) — Federal, relating to a union of states or to its central government.
- ബജറ്റ് (bajattu) — Budget, a plan of money coming in and going out; also the yearly financial statement of a government.
- മന്ത്രിസഭ (manthrisabha) — Cabinet, the council of ministers in a government; a cupboard is called alamaara.
- രാജ്യം (raajyam) — Country, a nation with its own land and government.
- രാജ്യങ്ങൾ (raajyangal) — Countries, nations, lands each with its own government; the singular is raajyam; nations; countries, independent states together with their peoples.
bharanakoodam names the government itself, while paripalanam and pariraksha describe the act of governing or protecting, and udyogasthar refers to the officials who staff it.
Common questions
How do you say government in Malayalam?
ഭരണകൂടം (bharanakoodam), the government or state machinery.
Is there a word for the central government?
kendra is the modifier meaning central, used of the central government.