Land in Malayalam
Malayalam calls land ഭൂമി (bhoomi), the same word it uses for earth and ground, so buying land is bhoomi vaangal. It serves for farmland, building plots and the planet together. Pronounce the first syllable long, bhoo-mi.
Most common translation
Earth, world, one of the five elements, floor, ground, country, land, countryside.
അവർ പുതിയ ഭൂമി വാങ്ങി.
avar puthiya bhoomi vaangi
They bought new land.
All Malayalam words for “land”
- ഭൂമി (bhoomi) — Earth, world, one of the five elements, floor, ground, country, land, countryside.
- കര (kara) — Shore, bank, land, part of a village, border line of a cloth dhoti.
- അംഗരാജവ് (amgarajavu) — King of the land of Anga, Karna.
- ഉപരിതലം (uparithalam) — Surface, the outer or top layer of something; the face of water, land or an object.
- കൃഷിയിടം (krishiyidam) — Farm, cultivable land.
- കൃഷിസ്ഥലം (krishisthalam) — Farm yard, land for cultivation.
- ജന്മാധികാരം (janmaadhikaaram) — Birth right, ownership right over land.
- തരിശുനിലം (tharishunilam) — Wasteland, fallow land, desert.
- താഴ്വര (thazhvara) — Valley; the low land lying between hills or mountains.
- തീരദേശ (theeradesha) — Coastal, of the sea shore or the land lying near it.
- ദേശാന്തരം (deshaantharam) — Foreign land.
- ദ്വീപ് (dweepu) — Island, a piece of land surrounded by water.
- നാട് (naad) — Country, kingdom, expanse of land, native place.
- പറമ്പ് (parambu) — Compound, orchard, garden, plot of land around a building.
- പാടം (paadam) — Paddy field, expansive plot of land, an expanse.
- പാട്ടബാക്കി (pattabakki) — Arrears of land -rent.
- പുറമ്പോക്ക് (purambokk) — Government land that belongs to none, unclaimed land.
- പൊന്നിലം (poonilam) — Heaven, land of gold.
- ഭൂനികുതി (bhoonikuthi) — Land tax, tax on land.
- ഭൂപരിധി (bhooparithi) — Boundary or limit of the earth, ceiling on land, limit of the area of land that a person can possess.
- ഭൂസ്വത്ത് (bhooswath) — Landed property, land in one's possession.
- രാജ്യം (raajyam) — Country, a nation with its own land and government.
- വയലുകൾ (vayalukal) — Fields, open farm land where crops are grown; areas of study or work are meghalakal.
- വയൽ (vayal) — Field, a paddy field, a cultivated plot of open land.
- വരെ (vare) — Until, up to, till (used as a postposition after the word it governs); till; up to a given time or point, until; the English word also means to plough land and the cash drawer in a shop.
- വെളി (veli) — Open expanse of land, waste land, sky, a kind of wild yam.
- സെന്റ് (sentu) — Cent, a hundredth part of a dollar; in Kerala also a unit of land area of about forty square metres.
- സ്ഥലം (sthalam) — Tract of land, ground, floor, site, plot, place.
- സ്വര്ഗ്ഗം (swarggam) — World of god's, Indra's kingdom; (fig.) land of joys and prosperity.
- സർവേ (sarve) — Survey; a study that collects people's answers, also the measuring of land, an inspection.
ഭൂമി (bhoomi) is land as ground or property, കര (kara) is dry land as against water, വയൽ (vayal) a paddy field, and താഴ്വര (thazhvara) the low land between hills.
Common questions
How do you say land in Malayalam?
ഭൂമി (bhoomi), land, ground or earth.
What do you call the land next to water?
കര (kara), the shore or bank, the dry land beside water.