Grace in Malayalam
Grace in the sense of beauty of form and movement is ലാവണ്യം (laavanyam). The first syllable is long, laa-van-yam, and the word carries an admiring, literary tone used of a face, a dance or a line of verse.
Most common translation
Grace, beauty, salinity.
ആ ശില്പത്തിന്റെ ലാവണ്യം അദ്ഭുതകരമാണ്.
aa shilpathinte laavanyam adbhuthakaramaanu.
The grace of that sculpture is amazing.
All Malayalam words for “grace”
- ലാവണ്യം (laavanyam) — Grace, beauty, salinity.
- ഭംഗി (bhangi) — Beauty, grace, harmony, praise, deceit, breakage, undulation, wave, elegance.
- മൊഞ്ച് (monch) — Face, grace, beauty, expression of anger.
- സൗന്ദര്യം (soundaryam) — Beauty, grace.
- അരുള് (arul) — Command, blessing, grace, mercy.
- ചന്തം (chantham) — Beauty, comeliness, elegance, grace, prettiness.
- മടവ് (madavu) — Beauty, comeliness, grace.
- മേനി (meni) — Body, shape of the body, quality, nobility, complexion, grace, measure of crops, times or fold, praise, flattery.
- അഭംഗി (abhamgi) — Want of beauty or grace.
- ദിവ്യകാരുണ്യം (divyakaarunyam) — Divine mercy, mercy, God's grace.
- ഭംഗികേട് (bangiked) — Want of grace, impropriety, clumsiness, awkwardness.
laavanyam and soundaryam lean towards beauty, bhangi and chantham towards elegance and prettiness, and arul is the other sense of grace, the favour or mercy granted from above.
Common questions
How do you say grace in Malayalam?
ലാവണ്യം (laavanyam), when grace means beauty of form.
Which word is used for divine grace?
arul, meaning blessing, grace and mercy.