Hair in Malayalam
The hair on your head is തലമുടി (thalamudi), a compound of thala, head, and mudi, hair. That is the word in daily use at the barber shop and at home.
Hair (on the head).
അവൾ തലമുടി ഭംഗിയായി കെട്ടിവച്ചു.
aval thalamudi bhangiyayi kettivachu.
She tied her hair neatly.
All Malayalam words for “hair”
- തലമുടി (thalamudi) — Hair (on the head).
- മയിര് (mayir) — Hair, pubic hair (hence vulgar).
- മുടി (mudi) — Hair, head, top, crown, sheaf or stalks of corn, a bundle.
- രോമം (romam) — Hair (of the body), water, pore, hole, (fig.) a trifling or insignificant thing.
- ബാലകം (balakam) — Finger ring, bracelet, hair at the end of an elephant's tail, horse's tail, hair.
- ആവര്ത്തകം (aavarthakam) — Whirlpool, a kind of cloud, curled hair.
- കബരി (kabari) — Braided hair, false hair, wig.
- ചിക്കുക (chikkuka) — Spread out(corn), comb, disentangle knotty hair.
- ചീപ്പ് (cheeppu) — Comb. A toothed object used to tidy the hair.
- ചെട (cheda) — Shaggy, clotted hair, matted hair.
- ജടയന് (jadayan) — One who has matted hair.
- തലനാരിഴ (thalanaarizha) — Hair breadth.
- തിരിപ്പന് (thirippan) — Wig, false hair used by women, periwig, peruke.
- നനഞ്ഞ (nananja) — Wet, soaked with water; damp, as of clothes or hair after rain.
- പിന്ന (pinna) — Plaited hair, younger sister.
- പൂട (pooda) — The down of birds, wool, fine soft hair.
- ബാർബർ (barbar) — Barber; a person who cuts hair and shaves beards.
- മൗലി (mouli) — Head, hair tied into a knot, peak, diadem, crown.
- രചന (rachana) — Composing, composition, construction, writing, literary work, decking hair stylishly.
- രചിക്കുക (rachikkuka) — Make, compose, construct, prepare, deck the hair.
- ശേഖരം (shegaram) — Crest jewel, crown, branch, best of the lot, tuft of hair, collection, heap, what is gathered or collected.
തലമുടി (thalamudi) is hair on the head; കബരി (kabari) is braided or false hair, തിരിപ്പന് (thirippan) a wig, ചെട (cheda) matted hair, ജടയന് (jadayan) a man with matted hair, ആവര്ത്തകം (aavarthakam) curled hair, ചിക്കുക (chikkuka) the verb for combing out tangles, and തലനാരിഴ (thalanaarizha) the idiom a hair's breadth.
Common questions
How do you say hair in Malayalam?
തലമുടി (thalamudi) is the word for the hair on the head.
How do I talk about a hair's breadth escape?
Use തലനാരിഴ (thalanaarizha), the width of a single hair, which is the standard way of describing a narrow escape.