Limb in Malayalam
A limb is അവയവം (avayavam), the ordinary Malayalam word for a part of the body such as an arm or a leg. Doctors and newspapers both use it, and it sounds neutral in either setting. Four even syllables, a-va-ya-vam.
Most common translation
Limb of the body.
കൈകാലുകള് ശരീരത്തിലെ പ്രധാന അവയവങ്ങളാണ്
kaikaalukal shareerathile pradhaana avayavangalaanu
Hands and legs are important limbs of the body.
All Malayalam words for “limb”
- അവയവം (avayavam) — Limb of the body.
- അംഗം (angam) — Body, limb, member, one of a group, a part of the Vedas.
- പ്രതീകം (pratheekam) — Symbol, reflection, image, limb, member, face.
- അംഗപ്രത്യംഗ (amgaprathyamga) — Of every limb, limb by limb.
- അംഗഹീന (amgaheena) — Disfigured, deformed, having no limb, mutilated, handicapped.
- കാല് (kaalu) — Leg, the limb used for standing and walking, also the leg of a table or chair.
- കൈ (kai) — Hand, the part of the body at the end of the arm, used for holding and working; arm, the limb from the shoulder to the hand, in everyday Malayalam the same word covers arm and hand.
അവയവം (avayavam) names a body part plainly, അംഗം (angam) can mean a limb but just as often a member of a group, and അംഗഹീന (amgaheena) describes someone who has lost a limb.
Common questions
How do you say limb in Malayalam?
അവയവം (avayavam), a limb or body part.
Does one word cover every limb together?
അംഗപ്രത്യംഗ (amgaprathyamga) means of every limb, limb by limb.