Heart in Malayalam
Heart is ഹൃദയം (hridayam), used for the organ in the chest and, as in English, for the seat of feeling. The hri is one syllable with a short vocalic r. Medicine and love songs borrow it equally.
Most common translation
Heart, mind, breast, chest, essence, secret.
അവന്റെ ഹൃദയം വേഗം മിടിച്ചു.
avante hridayam vegam midichu.
His heart beat fast.
All Malayalam words for “heart”
- ഹൃദയം (hridayam) — Heart, mind, breast, chest, essence, secret.
- ഉള്ള് (ull) — Mind, heart, substance, idea.
- കരള് (karal) — Liver, heart.
- ചിത്തം (chitham) — Mind, heart, thought, understanding.
- ചേതസ് (chethas) — Mind, heart, consciousness.
- സ്വാന്തം (swaantham) — The mind, the heart.
- കാണാപ്പാഠം പഠിക്കുക (kanappadam padikkuk) — Learn by heart, memorize.
- കാമിനി (kamini) — Beautiful woman, sweet heart, amorous woman.
- നിഷ്കളങ്ക (nishkalanka) — Stainless, blameless, faultless, unblemished, spotless, pure of heart.
- ലാഘവബുദ്ധി (laaghavabuddhi) — Lightness of heart, light hearted man, lack of seriousness.
- സ്പന്ദനം (spandanam) — Throbbing, vibration, throb, beat (heart beat), quivering.
- ഹൃദയസ്തംഭനം (hridayasthambhanam) — Heart arrest, heart-failure.
- ഹൃദയാഘാതം (hridayaaghaatham) — Heart attack.
- ഹൃദിസ്ഥമാക്കുക (hridisthamaakkuka) — Learn by heart.
- ഹൃദ്രോഗം (hridrogam) — Heart disease.
hridayam covers both the organ and the feeling heart; ull, chitham, chethas and swaantham are inner mind words, and karal, properly the liver, is used affectionately of the heart.
Common questions
How do you say heart in Malayalam?
ഹൃദയം (hridayam).
How do you say to learn by heart?
kanappadam padikkuk, to learn by heart or memorize.