Hell in Malayalam
Hell is നരകം (narakam) in Malayalam, the place where sinners are said to go after death. The word is also used loosely of any place full of misery. Torments of hell are നരകയാതന (narakayaathana).
Most common translation
Hell, world where sinners go after death; (idm.) a place full of misery and pain.
ചൂടും തിരക്കും കൊണ്ട് നഗരം നരകമായി.
choodum thirakkum kondu nagaram narakamaayi.
With heat and crowds the city became a hell.
All Malayalam words for “hell”
- നരകം (narakam) — Hell, world where sinners go after death; (idm.) a place full of misery and pain.
- അധോലോകം (adholokam) — Nether world, under world, hell, the world or criminals.
- ത്രിലോകം (thrilokam) — The three worlds- earth, heaven and hell.
- നരകയാതന (narakayaathana) — Hellish suffering, torments of hell.
- പുന്നരകം (punnarakam) — A kind of hell, experience in the hell called.
narakam is hell itself, അധോലോകം (adholokam) the nether or criminal underworld, and ത്രിലോകം (thrilokam) the three worlds of earth, heaven and hell together.
Common questions
How do you say hell in Malayalam?
നരകം (narakam), the word for hell.
Which word means the underworld?
അധോലോകം (adholokam), the nether world, also used of the criminal underworld.