Life in Malayalam
Life as the vital spark in a body is ഉയിര് (uyir), a short native word also used for vigour. It is the life that can be lost or saved rather than life as a career or a span of years. Two syllables, u-yir.
Most common translation
Life, vigour, vowel.
ഉയിരുള്ള കാലത്തോളം ഞാൻ അധ്വാനിക്കും.
uyirulla kalatholam njan adhwanikkum.
As long as I have life, I will work hard.
All Malayalam words for “life”
- ഉയിര് (uyir) — Life, vigour, vowel.
- ചേതന (chethana) — Life, consciousness, knowledge, thought.
- പ്രാണന് (praanan) — Life, breath, soul.
- ചൈതന്യം (chaithanyam) — Life-force, life, liveliness, vigour, consciousness, the Supreme Soul.
- ആയുസ്സ് (aayuss) — Duration of life, life time, life, vital power.
- ആവി (aavi) — Vapour, water vapour, smoke, life.
- ഊര്ജ്ജം (oorjjam) — Energy, power, vigour, life, breath.
- ജനനം (jananam) — Birth, rise, life, heredity, origin.
- അല്പായുസ്സ് (alpayussu) — Short life.
- അസുര (asura) — Having life, superhuman.
- ആജീവനാന്തം (aajeevanaantham) — Throughout life, till death.
- ആദ്ധ്യാത്മികജീവിതം (addhyathmika jeevith) — Spiritual life.
- ആയുരാരോഗ്യം (aayuraarogyam) — Long life and health.
- ആയുഷ്ക്കാലം (aayushkkaalam) — Life time.
- ഇഹലോകജീവിതം (ihalokajeevitham) — Life in this world.
- ഏകാന്തജീവിതം (ekaanthajeevitham) — Lonely life.
- കരിയർ (kariyar) — Career, a person's working life or chosen line of work.
- ചെറുപ്പമായ (cheruppamaya) — Young; not old, early in life or growth.
- ജന്മം (janmam) — Birth, nativity, origin, life birth right, (law) freehold property.
- ജന്മകാലം (janmakaalam) — Time of birth, life time.
- ജന്മരഹസ്യം (janmarahasyam) — Secret of birth, secret of life.
- ജാതകഫലം (jaathakafalam) — Events in a person's life based on the planetary positions at the time of his birth (astro).
- ജീവചരിത്രം (jeevacharithram) — Life history, biography.
- ജീവനുള്ള (jeevanulla) — Alive; living, not dead, still having life.
- ജീവപര്യന്തം കഠിനതടവ് (jeevaparyantham ka) — Rigorous imprisonment for life.
- ജീവഹാനി (jeevahaani) — Death, destruction of life.
- ജീവിക്കുക (jeevikkuka) — Live, subsist, come to life, lead a life of.
- ജീവിച്ചു (jeevichu) — Lived; the past form of live, stayed alive or spent one's life; for living at a place Malayalam usually says thaamasichu.
- ജീവിതം (jeevitham) — Span of life, livelihood, existence.
- ജീവിതകാലം (jeevithakaalam) — Lifetime, time of life, life till death.
- ജീവിതനിലവാരം (jeevithanilavaaram) — Standard of life.
- ജീവിതാവശ്യങ്ങള് (jeevithaavashyangal) — Needs of life.
- ജീവിപ്പിക്കുക (jeevippikkuka) — Bring to life, cause to live, resurrect.
- തത്വശാസ്ത്രം (thathvashaasthram) — Philosophy, the study of thought and existence, a person's outlook on life.
- ദാമ്പത്യം (daambathyam) — State of being husband and wife, married life.
- ദീര്ഘായുസ്സ് (deerghaayuss) — Long life, a long-lived person, longevity.
- ദുര്നടപടി (durnadapadi) — Immoral life, malpractice, misdemeanour.
- ദുര്നടപ്പ് (durnadapp) — Wicked or immoral life.
- നിത്യജീവിതം (nithyajeevitham) — Daily life.
- പുരുഷാര്ത്ഥം (purushartham) — Aim or object of human life.
- പ്രപഞ്ചം (prapancham) — World, Universe, cosmos, worldly life, breadth, description, abundance, expanse, variety, analysis.
- പ്രാണഹാനി (praanahaani) — Loss of life, death.
- പ്രായം (praayam) — Age, ages, the number of years a person has lived; age, the number of years a person has lived; the stage of life someone is at.
- മനോമയം (manomayam) — Spiritually absorbed mind, a state of life before it attains salvation.
- മാനസാന്തരപ്പെടുക (maanasaantharappeduka) — Accept the Christian way of life after confession.
- മൃതം (mritham) — One who is dead, death, corpse, poison, life of beggary.
- യാന്ത്രികജീവിതം (yaanthrikajeevitham) — Mechanical life, life that goes on like a machine, an artificial, unemotional life.
- വയസ്സ് (vayass) — Age (in years), life time, youth, old age.
- വഴിതെറ്റുക (vazhithettuka) — Follow the wrong order, go astray, go along the wrong path of life.
- സംസാരം (samsaaram) — Conversation, talk, worldly relations, world, worldly life, worldly subject, wife and children (old Malayalam).
- സാമൂഹിക (saamoohika) — Social, relating to society, to people living together or to community life.
ഉയിര് (uyir) and പ്രാണന് (praanan) are life as breath and vital force, ചൈതന്യം (chaithanyam) and ചേതന (chethana) life as consciousness and liveliness, and ആയുസ്സ് (aayuss) the length of a lifetime.
Common questions
How do you say life in Malayalam?
ഉയിര് (uyir) for life as the vital spark, or പ്രാണന് (praanan) for life as breath.
How do I say lifespan?
ആയുസ്സ് (aayuss), the duration of a life.