Liquid in Malayalam
For liquid as a state of matter, use ദ്രവം (dravam), the term you meet in school science and on labels, read dra-vam. It covers any fluid, from water to oil. In the kitchen, though, people usually name the thing itself, as with പാൽ (paal) for milk or എണ്ണ (enna) for oil.
Most common translation
Liquid, fluid, melting, liquefying.
കുപ്പിയിൽ ഒരു നീല ദ്രവം ഉണ്ട്.
kuppiyil oru neela dravam undu.
There is a blue liquid in the bottle.
All Malayalam words for “liquid”
- ദ്രവം (dravam) — Liquid, fluid, melting, liquefying.
- എണ്ണ (enna) — Oil, cooking oil, any greasy liquid such as coconut oil.
- കട്ടിയുള്ള (kattiyulla) — Solid, firm and hard, not liquid; sturdy and strongly made.
- കുടിക്കുക (kudikkuka) — Drink; to swallow a liquid, to take water or a beverage; drinking; taking water or another liquid into the mouth and swallowing it.
- ജലം (jalam) — Water; water, liquid state.
- പാത്രം (paathram) — Bowl; a round deep dish for food or liquid; Malayalam uses the general word for vessel.
- പാല് (paalu) — Milk, the white liquid from a cow or from a mother, used in tea and cooking.
- പാൽ (paal) — Milk, the white liquid from cows or goats, used as a drink and in cooking.
- വെള്ളം (vellam) — Water, the clear liquid people drink and wash with, rain or river water.
- സോപ്പ് (soppu) — Soap. A bar or liquid used with water for washing.
dravam is the general, mildly technical word, ജലം (jalam) is a literary word for water, and കട്ടിയുള്ള (kattiyulla) is its opposite, solid.
Common questions
How do you say liquid in Malayalam?
ദ്രവം (dravam) is the usual word for a liquid or fluid.
Is dravam used in conversation?
It belongs mostly to school, medical and packaging language. In ordinary talk Malayalis name the liquid itself, as with പാൽ (paal) for milk.