Lightning in Malayalam
Lightning is മിന്നല് (minnal) in Malayalam, the flash seen in the sky during a storm. Monsoon reports use it daily, and it serves as an image for anything very fast. When thunder follows the flash, Kerala speaks of ഇടിമിന്നല് (idiminnal).
Most common translation
Flash, lightning, thunderbolt.
മഴയ്ക്കു മുൻപ് ആകാശത്ത് മിന്നല് കണ്ടു.
mazhaykku munpu aakaashathu minnal kandu
Before the rain we saw lightning in the sky.
All Malayalam words for “lightning”
- മിന്നല് (minnal) — Flash, lightning, thunderbolt.
- പിണര് (pinar) — Lightning, joining together, clogging, yoke, bundle of paddy seedlings.
- വൈദ്യുതി (vaidyuthi) — Electricity, lightning.
- ഇടിമിന്നല് (idiminnal) — Lightning before thunder, flash of lightning.
- ഇടിവാള് (idival) — Thunder bolt, thunder stroke, flash of lightning, destructive thing.
- ഇടിവെട്ട് (idivett) — Lightning stroke.
- മിന്നൽ (minnal) — Lightning. The flash of light in the sky during a storm.
minnal is the flash itself, idiminnal and idivett tie it to thunder and to a lightning strike, vaidyuthi is electricity, and pinar is an old and rarely used word.
Common questions
How do you say lightning in Malayalam?
മിന്നല് (minnal).
How do you say a lightning strike?
ഇടിവെട്ട് (idivett), or ഇടിമിന്നല് (idiminnal) for lightning with thunder.